Spider deterrent……. Not….🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️

^ There was a blinking great house spider actually sat on top of it^

Funniest thing I have read in a while!
Not for you though!

fancythat

^ There was a blinking great house spider actually sat on top of it^

Funniest thing I have read in a while!
Not for you though!

I did try to get a photo, but as I moved the cooker, it’s scuttled away behind the kitchen cupboard 😬🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️

I absolutely hate spiders.
I'm so, so afraid of them.

I dread the time when they decide to move in.
I'm a nervous wreck.

I m afraid I can’t share all your fears and yuks they’re just creatures trying to get by.
Funnily I haven’t seen any in the house for a long while although I find plenty of cobwebs.
It’s usually September when I walk straight into a cobweb as I go into the garden.
I ve never thought of buying anything to deter them
When the grandkids were little and scared of them I used to give them names, I remember Margaret lived in the loo (they stay in one place for weeks) and she had lots of stories woven round her ( haha ‘woven’ see what I did there)

We never have flies in our house because I don’t get rid of the spiders. I know which I prefer to have.

I'm absolutely petrified of spiders and I'm sorry, but I don't care if they're killed. I literally get palpitations and come over in a cold sweat. I can feel a shiver going up my back and hyperventilate. There was a big one on the wall in the bedroom late at night, a while back and I went to get the vacuum cleaner, because there's no way I would have been able to sleep with that on the wall, but when I came back upstairs it had gone! AAAAARGH!! I couldn't find it anywhere and I ended up sleeping in another room for days. I eventually went back in that bedroom after checking thoroughly. But can you ever check thoroughly? It could easily have been under the bed clinging to the underneath of it, off the floor.

Peaseblossom

I'm absolutely petrified of spiders and I'm sorry, but I don't care if they're killed. I literally get palpitations and come over in a cold sweat. I can feel a shiver going up my back and hyperventilate. There was a big one on the wall in the bedroom late at night, a while back and I went to get the vacuum cleaner, because there's no way I would have been able to sleep with that on the wall, but when I came back upstairs it had gone! AAAAARGH!! I couldn't find it anywhere and I ended up sleeping in another room for days. I eventually went back in that bedroom after checking thoroughly. But can you ever check thoroughly? It could easily have been under the bed clinging to the underneath of it, off the floor.

I’m with you, they petrify me, only the big fast moving ones, I don’t mind tiny ones or the small fragile ones that hang in a corner until they turn to dust, but I will kill the big beastly ones, however, I can’t get close to it and since my DH had a stroke he isn’t able to provide his spider removal services. So I usually suck it up the hoover or bang it with the heavy end of a broom. Sorry but is either my sanity or the spider. Both cannot reside under the same roof.

The same for me.
Ooh, just use a glass and a piece of paper, "they said".
I tried that, and the spider jumped around like a maniac inside the glass.
I got to the door, gritting my teeth and sweating, then realised i didn't have any way to open the door.

I'll never, ever do that again.

MissAdventure

The same for me.
Ooh, just use a glass and a piece of paper, "they said".
I tried that, and the spider jumped around like a maniac inside the glass.
I got to the door, gritting my teeth and sweating, then realised i didn't have any way to open the door.

I'll never, ever do that again.

Oh dear,poor you….😱😂

I’ve got several different types of Spider Catchers bought over the years but after seeing what a small Cellar Spider did to a GHS about 3 times his/her size I leave the Cellar spiders alone now. If they miss a GHS or any of the others I will grab the nearest Catcher & then evict the caught one at the wild bottom of my garden. Never go in there just to the start & let my Gardener go in & play with all the evicted spiders when it needs sorting out!

I thought i was going to pass out.
Not that I've ever passed out out in my life, but it was awful.
Trying to open the door with my elbow, and keep the paper and glass in place.

I like this…
I like the explanation, not so keen on the size of the spider or the look of it..🕷️🕷️🕷️😁

And this….

"They rarely bite humans" doesn't exactly fill me with warm, fuzzy feelings.

MissAdventure

"They rarely bite humans" doesn't exactly fill me with warm, fuzzy feelings.

Sorry MissA…..🥹

I have now made my own spider deterrent with peppermint oil and a carrier oil and a little bit of fairy liquid and water put in a spray bottle. I’m gonna spray that round my windows, et cetera.

😜

That's what I need to do, too.
I've tried conkers, and plug in thingies.
My daughter's dog used to run in and hunt out spiders - any time she heard a sharp intake of breath, she'd be checking for spiders.

I remember seeing (on tv) that if you put house spiders outside, they just make their way in again or die. If you put them in a shed or outbuilding they stay there. Happy ending for all.

Its the "putting them" anywhere that scares me.
As well as the going into a shed or outbuilding knowing without a doubt that there's a spider living in it.
Spiders are the bane of my life.

So glad I've got over my fear/dislike of spiders. I was going upstairs the other day, looked down and a large one was climbing alongside me.

Please please DO NOT KILL SPIDERS. Think of all the numerous creepy crawlies that come into our houses. Mrs Spider and Co will dispose of them for you. I have been terrified of spiders since childhood but have forced myself to leave them alone/ or use the glass and card trick to remove them outside, not when it is raining, then I put them in the garage. Try talking to them as you remove them, the fear seems to lessen.

Glass and card for me. Trap spider under glass, open the door, go back and collect spider.

I bought some of those electric mice deterrent things for my garage and noticed that there were less spiders and cobwebs around. So I put one at the top of the stairs where the cobwebs build up right at the top. I got rid of the cobwebs and after two years there was hardly one in sight.

I've moved it into the bedroom where we used to get a lot of spiders and though they are obviously around because there are a few cobwebs behind cupboards and things we very rarely see them anymore. Which is all I need really. I don't want to harm them, but out of sight is out of mind for me.

Haha Shinamae - just seen your last post

I'll correct myself - if I never see them they are out of sight and out of mind for me.