What would you do? (Spiders involved)

[JoyS]

Fairly certain I'm BU but don't really care.

We have a pretty nice 3-wheeler pushchair. About a week ago I was on my way out the door with it, stopped to put the seat back so DD could have a nap and noticed that a giant spider had NESTED underneath the seat liner, right next to DD's head.

When I say giant, I mean the size of a 10p coin. And nested as in, with eggs.

So I have bought a new pushchair (that's the unreasonable part) but what to do with the 3-wheeler?

A)Clean out spiders and sell it on mumsnet or similar (anybody want to buy a pushchair?)

B)Clean out spiders and continue to use it

C)Take it to the tip (would have to go in the car then)

Any opinions? Any advice?

i'll never forget the noise dp made one night in our old flat when a huge spider dropped in front of his face when he was having a smoke on the balcony.

if you imagine someone yelping and inhaling at the same time while jumping about 4 feet in reverse you get the picture

i think i'm curing him though, he can even tolerate them in the bedroom now and he doesn't have a nervous breakdown about finding money spiders on his clothes any more

Pinktulips he was lucky he didn't inhale the said spider...

A feck off monster spider ( I swear it had tusks) has just scaled down from the ceiling and landed on my sofa not 20 mins ago. Beer glass and envelope trick and chucked out the back door.
I would have hoovered too.

Merlypuss, spider probably only wanted a beer...

Goodnight all, I am off to dream about spiders

PinkTulips I am also married to an arachnophobe. My personal favourite was a few weeks ago in the garden, when, after hours of nagging me to wear gloves (because of the toxoplasmosis risk, currently PG with DC1), he threw the contents of an entire plant pot of soil at me because he'd noticed a spider on his wrist and instinctively tried to flick it off

billybass, i may have aggravated the situation by pointing that out and laughing hysterically and refusing to move spider for him

You need to go and watch Charlotte's Web

JoyS, yes, we get spiders a lot bigger than that in the UK! In my house, I've seen some monsters. My hippy husband refuses to kill them, so he does the old trick of catching them with a glass and a postcard slipped underneath. Quite often, the spider is so big its legs won't fit under the rim of the glass! shudder

pmsl Rainy

definitely sounds like something dp would do!

In spider-season (late summer/autumn) I'm a nervous wreck and walk around the house jumping hysterically at bits of cat fluff, etc. One night I was lying in bed reading a book and had that horrible feeling of "There's a spider in this room, I just know it."

It was distracting me from my book, so I told myself: "You daft cow, there are no spiders in the room. Look, just put down your book and see for yourself that there are no spiders. Then you can relax."

I put down my book, look around my bedroom... and see this monster of a black spider struggling towards me across our stark white duvet!

Reader, I shat myself.

LMAO

Hippy husband will neither kill nor remove them - that's my job.

Housemate on the other hand will kill them thrice over - crushing in a tissue then throwing down the loo then flushing it. A few nights ago she suddenly shrieked "I can see what you're doing, you BASTARD!" before smacking the shit out of a spider that was more or less minding its own business in the middle of our living room floor.

I would have flamethrowed it

I was getting dressed the other morning and just as i pulled my top down over my chest ,this massive spider lept out and ran across the floor.OMG i felt pysically sick,i managed to after 20 minutes of searching(making me late for school run)to find it .It had crawled inside the arm of another top hung on the chest of drawers (which incidentally i had shaken about 5 times )I covered it with the top and tail bowl(havent put it away yet)and stacked the weighing scales on top of it.I couldnt even bear to kill it.

If you are not in Oz or somewhere similar and it's not poisonous, I really struggle to find what the problem is. Just flick the nest off into the garden and forget about it-or ask someone else to?
I appreciate people can be phobic, but spiders really are fantastic creatures!
Have spider nests in our porch quite often, they don't do any harm; the little spiders will just float out at some point and go their separate ways.
My sister has a huntsman living in her lounge at the moment.. quite cute

rainy, dp once slept in the hall when he was 15 as there was a spider in his bedroom and his brother and dad wouldn't remove it

he accepts that the spiders are innocent of any crime so won't kill them (just as well or i'd kill him) but he can't catch them either. this extends to most insects, wasps are paticularily amusing as they give chase when he runs shrieking [i'm going to hell emoticon]

LOL at RainyWednesday. Lololol

Ha ha ha ha ha

DH has promised that he will Show No Fear around spiders when DC is born so that he doesn't pass his phobia on. We'll see!

See, spiders don't bother me at all...

Now, had there been a wasps' nest in said pushchair.......

dp promised that too.

he does try around them but i fear dd has picked up on his flinching all the time as she now claims not to like spiders and bugs.... although incy wincy spider in the book is exempt as 'he's happy, look he's smiling mommy'

I shouldnt have read this thread

I am soooooo phobic

spiders give me panic attacks and make me want to throw up

if I could afford it I would buy a new buggy and sell or give the old one away

lol eeny, you'll have to buck up with a little boy in the house

ds ran up to me a few days ago with a slug as a present, i told him to put it down before he squished it as he might be scaring it so he plopped it down and gave it some leaved and berries to eat so it would feel better

he also has a beetle obsession

I had a flat mate who was ex-Combined Cadet Force, but who would scream for us to get rid of spiders for him, no matter how tiny they were.

He was also a film buff and "Arachnaphobia" had great reviews.

So he rented it, and jumped, twitched, squealed and sweated all the way through.

We watched him, not the film, because it was more entertaining.

When it was over and his heartbeat was slowing down he got up to go to the loo.

One of the biggest house spiders I have ever seen fell off the ceiling onto his shoulder.

He let out a sort of "Waaaah" noise and jumped about a mile.

We were sick with laughing but we bought him a humane spider catcher for Christmas.

When my ds ,was 4 months old he had a fleecy zip up thing over his babygrow . I unzipped it and a huge spider scuttled out .
I am ashamed to say I left ds on the sofa jumped onto the other one and screamed for dp .

Twas the shock

ds was fine

omg
dh would flip if i bought a new pushchair because of a spider.
you must be seriously arachnophobic

just hoover the things up.....but then i guess you'll want a new vac!

It is surpose to be unlucky to kill spiders.They are more scared of you .The have 8 eyes and can see 8 of you.I hate them but i dont kill them.Some times if i see 1 I ignore them and hope they go away.If i am feeling brave i some times get a glass or ask hubby to get a glass and put them in the garden.Or my cats will be on spider alert and kill them as they like to kill any thing that moves.(Not us of course).Thank god we dont have mice.We had a big spider here once it was crawling up the curtains it must have
slipped but when it fell it make such a thump shows how big and heavy it was.It might have been having little spiders .No i didnt get new curtains.The spider was put in the garden (not by me.)Had to put it out as wouldnt know where it was or its babies.