So many big spiders 🫣!!

What about the flies and bugs, don’t they deserve a mention, I hardly think spiders are killing them painlessly? I believe they suck out all their bodily fluids leaving them desiccated.
If is wrong to kill a spider is it not wrong to kill any living thing, and I wonder how many buy fly spray or use fly paper.
I don’t mind killing flies or bugs but then I don’t mind sucking spiders up the hoover either. I don’t discriminate. 😉

Well, I'm sorry, but if they decide to come into my house uninvited, then they'll be treated the same way as any other unwanted intruder!

Do you live in Australia?

I don’t mind spiders at all and can pick them up and throw them in the garden and none of my a/c are scared but all of my 8 GC are terrified 🫣

Now seeing a mouse is a different matter 🐭 😬.

I had not one but 3 in corner of bathroom the other evening and one of them looked as though it was on steroids!!!!
Its body was the size of my thumbnail with mechanical looking bent legs...my heart nearly stopped..i moved my bath step towards me and there were another 2 not as big but was shocked..i'm afraid i got the liquid bleach and squirted it into the crack between bath corner and skirting board...sorry but i can't deal with them upstairs and not mobile enough to scoop up and put out of window...

I was brought up on, ‘If you wish to live and thrive, let a spider run alive’. They had to be humanely removed with a mug and a card.
My Mother was terrified of spiders but hid her fear. Despite that I’m terrified too and so is one daughter. I think mice are cute and snakes are beautiful, but spiders are repulsive.

Daughter saw 2 in her outside wall's tiny holes. She sprayed the wall with Indorex and next day hosed the wall down. 8 dead Funnel Web spiders came out.
OH was bitten twice on his leg by a false widow. Huge red patches with black/ green bite marks. GP gave antibiotics, antihistamines and ointment. 2 months later now and it's just about better although the skin is still not a completely normal colour.
I don't pick them up anymore after a large house spider bit my finger 3 times. Just went red, hurt for an hour and all normal in a week. Felt like a wasp sting.

I’m sure the one in my bathroom is trying to communicate with me ( I call him Graham) He’s never around until I use the facilities 😂 Then he comes out and I talk to him.

I actually find British House Spiders to be fairly amusing and l am not frightened of them.

Of course l would be if they were massive and poisonous.

Anyway, my mother always reckoned to Spiders kept our house clean because the eat floor dust and flies.

Maybe an old wife's tale?

It is spider season . I use a large glass jar and card them release them in the garden. They may come back - who knows . I would rather not see them in my house but am not afraid of them . I know I could' nt kill them or suck them up with the hoover !

Pick them up and put them in the garden.

Books, always, and fine black pens and sharp pencils.

eazybee

Books, always, and fine black pens and sharp pencils.

To draw spiders?

I have no worries for spiders and moths and butterflies etc., and was definitely chief sorter out of such things for my mother, who didnt care for any of them, but would not kill them. However slugs give me the creeps, and for some reason those sort of orangy brown ones are the worst. I can deal with them though if I need to. My phobia is of needles and as I had a needle break in my leg as a child and was very ill, and had to have a chunk taken out of my thigh , which I can see everyday not liable to forget it. I have tried hypnosis and all sorts of things to improve matters. It wouldnt happen today as they dont sterilse and reuse needles so worry not folks . So no doubt we all have things that bother us more than others, and so it is a matter of give and take, where we help others out in their situation and hopefully someone will be around to help when we need them.

We have had a bad blue bottle problem this year, but cleaning around the windows, I have found spider webs with trapped dead ones, so I am more sympathetic to spiders and put them out rather than the hoover now, but I do use Spider Stop in my kitchen. I have, though decluttered a lot, so there are fewer places for them to nest.
Yes, my garden is full of them this year, but as long as they stay out there, I am OK.
Phobia cured by having my DS who showed me all the creatures he found.