Do spiders come out of plugholes?

[Wisterical]

Do they ? I regularly find big butch bastard spiders in my bath, one friend says they come up out the plughole and I should always keep the plug in as I'm embarrassingly terrified of spiders, other friend says they live in skirting boards and are only in the bath because once they're in sides are too slippy for them to get out again.

Where do spiders live when I can't see them? And has anyone ever cured their arachnophobia? I need to stop squealing and getting neighbours to rescue me from spiders

Eek following with interest!

Apparently they climb into the bath and then can’t get out because it’s slippy. DP reckons they couldn’t live in plug holes as they’d drown although some of the steroid munching, weightlifting fuckers I’ve seen could probably survive a nuclear holocaust!

Nope. They'd drown. The drain is full of water. They can hide in the overflow hole though. A GIANT MOTHERF*%#!ER was in the bath once decades ago and disappeared before dad (the hero) got home so I assumed my mum had removed it.

No. No. No. it crawled out of the overflow hole like a goddamn horror movie scene when I was mid bath and floated on the bubbles towards me. I couldn't do anything but freeze in fear and scream the house down.

Now I throw water down the overflow every single time I use the bath.

They only like being near plug holes because it’s damp and they like it. Bastards.

Yes they do. My dh has seen it. They also crawl in between the gaps in windows.

just reading this has made me itch all over.
My hubby sealed any gaps we could see along skirting boards and windows when we moved in, and moved stones and plants away from the windows outside. Also we have a cat who loves to eat spiders and since then there's not been as many in the house thank god.

Spiders are around anyway, if you just don't want to find them in the bath leave a rope hanging down, so they can climb out...

@jellytotslove do cats really eat spiders? I have a mild phobia of cats but much worse when it comes to spiders so may have to consider getting a cat.
My dog is absolutely useless, he just gets giddy over spotting a spider then runs round in circles for a minute or two, before going back for it only to have found that it’s buggered off elsewhere. The dummy then spends the next half hour looking for the spider with absolutely no luck

Spiders get in air bubbles and survive underwater so they can be under the plug and not drown. In oz you can find funnel web spiders alive and well in swimming pools.

Cheeky nooooo!! God I'm almost weeping with horror. I really want rid of this obviously irrational terror, please can anyone tell me how they learned to love the spider? Sometimes I even jump out my skin seeing one of those tomato top bits on a chopping board. Because obviously they are very spider-like

I used to be terrified and while I can't touch them or sleep with them in my bedroom I can now get them out with a glass and a piece of card. My method was fairly simple - I just watched them. Started off with small ones that weren't moving and forced myself to just watch until the panic feeling subsided. After a while I found the panic feeling lasting shorter and shorter and I could get closer and closer without running away. Now I still get the initial panic feeling but it's more like the fright you get when someone makes you jump - doesn't last long and I can control it.

I want to be able to pick them up eventually but I'm not quite there yet.

in short, yes they do, as do things like cockroaches etc.

I'm impressed Isabella and think I could try that. With a very small spider. It's just a feeling isn't it? I know there's nothing to be frightened of but something takes over and I immediately scream, yelp, jump on furniture, run out room. My best and only strategy at the moment, with a not too big spider, is cover with a glass bowl (so can check spider hasn't escaped obviously), then another glass bowl then tea towel then big heavy dictionary (so spider can't lift bowl up!) then wait until neighbour can remove. I am sick of it tbh. Don't mind snakes, beetles, anything else. Though moths make me shudder a bit.

Yes, it is just a feeling and it does subside. It is a fear that is pretty irrational and I decided I needed to deal with it when I moved away from home because I felt like a daft kid asking my flat mates to deal with spiders for me.

I now live in my own house and I tend to ignore the spiders downstairs. I have convinced my niece they are pets when she sees them an she looks at them with me - her mum really likes it because she (DSis) is also terrified and doesn't want to pass the fear on.

That's great! I'm ashamed that I've passed the fear on to my daughter and we are both trying not to pass it on to my grandson.

Yeah, DNeice isn't that keen on spiders, and it started by accident - she saw one down the side of my fridge and wanted me to remove it (she was 3 at the time) but I couldn't because it would have meant pulling the fridge out. I just told her it was my pet, just like her cats. We watched it for a while and then moved on. It had downsides though - when she came back a week later it had gone so I told her it had gone home because it missed its mum!

My other sister used to be worse than me but she didn't want to pass the fear on so determined never to show fear to her children. She's reaping the rewards now - DNephew is 10 and gets spiders out for her with his bare hands so she doesn't even need to bother with a glass!

@summerisdone my cat loves to chase them and then sits there chewing them up, the bigger ones he will spit out but smaller one he eats. it's disgusting but rather that than me having to deal with them.