Spiders, tarantulas and millipedes!

[Hattie05]

Ok tell me i'm being stupid and to get over it.

I have a real phobia of spiders and generally don't like any insects in my house.
I woke this morning to see a millipede/centipede wriggling accross the ceiling above my bed. so got up pretty promptly, wishing i could scoop it up in a tissue and throw it (but i can't bear to) cos i know when i go to bed tonight i'll need dp to inspect every inch of the room for me

Then i get downstairs and find a dead (thank god!) tarantula by the back door (ok not a tarantula but the biggest spider ever). luckily dd loves spiders and thinks i do to, so i said oh look theres a spider why don't you put him in the garden to find his friends! she did and i am soooo glad she did.

Now i'm sitting at the table on pc with my feet up, because there is another big spider on the ceiling and i have to keep my feet up in case he drops on the floor and gets me!

Oh please its made me feel like crying writing all of this down but i am so genuinely terrified of these stupid creatures why do they all come in my house??? dd is watching tv and i want to get ready so we can go out, but too scared to look in shower in case theres another one there

sorry this is so long! help me!

I have made a bargain with the spiders around here, and there are plenty of the buggers. If they stay outside I leave them alone (except when they are on the whirlygig then it is a different matter) they come inside then they better hope DH gets them. There is a huge spider made a web on our guttering at the side of our front door, huge I mean 10p size body, you can see its markings, as long as it stays there then that is fine.

I was told that if you ask a spider to leave the house then they will, it was an elderly neighbour and she said it with a straight face as well! Then another neighbour agreed with her. My response is usually to shout on DH followed by "get RID of it NOW!"

Brooms don't work. I was clearing one from the kitchen window once this way and it ended up skittering up the broom towards me. Had to leave the kitchen door closed until DH came home from work. God knows what the neighbours thought of me screeching through the house in horror.

I use the cats flea spray on the end of a broom to kill the eggs though, and that works. Go on, laugh but it does.

I was just about to leave the hairdressers yesterday when one of the girls screamed as a spide ran across the room. Allof them then started freaking out so I acted brave and bent down to pick up this hige spider with my hands to put it outside.

I picked it up but dropped it and it shot up my trouser leg or so I thought. I just started screaming light a mad woman whilst they all pissed themselves laughing. I calmed down and saw that one of them had it trapped under a glass.

Exit one red-faced customer

I can't stay away from this thread. Galaxy, I'd have died if that had happened to me, I'm sure! TIBS, so even a broom is out of bounds now?? Oh heck!

There were some MONSTERS in the garage yesterday, which I had a happy time killing with the back of a broom but two of them escaped and are now lurking behind the coal bunker. Dh is nearly as jumpy as me, por soul. Still, our garage is much cleaner and tidier now, though there's now an embarrassing amount of garbage awaiting the bin men.

I loathe and dread spiders and I find that thunderstorms (like we had last night) bring them indoors and DP has gone away for a few nights) - am dreading it.