HELP! Spiders!

[Lilelephant]

I have a poser catcher! It is a big pole with a box on the spider crawls in the box and u release the handle and the door comes down and traps in u can then put it outside

 

[Emily0505]

What do I do with spiders... I do running, screaming, crying, shaking, sweating and pretty much hysteria!! Can't deal with them at all- I swear it will be how I die- death by giant spider!

There was an iddy one on my banister when OH was out on his stag do. I did the whole cup and paper thing- took me ages to build up the courage to put the cup over it and then even longer to get the paper underneath- all the while I'm standing as far away as I can (bearing in mind I do not have superhuman length arms!) and repeating over and over to myself- 'it's alright, your doing really well, your doing really well!' I made massive scractehs and gouges in the banister from pushing the cup on so hard!

Then... omg such trauma... when I went to tip it out, I took the envelope off the bottom of the cup and the bloody thing had only attatched itself to the envelope! To which I promptly screamed and dropped the envelope and then had to send the dog to go and pick it up for me as I was too scared.

Oh dear I feel a waffle coming on but soooo many funny stories... I had friends over once and a giant spider came in through the patio doors. I screamed and abandoned my friends to fend for themselves. They were going to get the dog to get the spider to which I replied 'noooooo, don't let Cairo get it, he's just a baby!'

I have nighmares about spiders too and I end up screaming at the top of my lungs and charging across the bed (and across OH) to get away from them! The first time it happened OH was so sweet he gave me a cuddle and checked if I was OK etc. From that time on now all I get is 'Emily, will you lie down and go to sleep! Its three o'clock in the morning and there are no spiders running across the bed!' (generally there are a few more expletives in amongst there too but didn't feel it was all that appropriate!)

Ok, so now my essay on Emily and Spiders is complete! Oh my god do I waffle, sorry!

XX

 

[LikeJohnnYoko]

Apparently they're bigger and there's more of them because of our warm spring/summer and the weather we have now is bringing them all inside. I've never see this many spiders. Usually my cat eats them (bloody awful crunch that makes) but if not I will vacuum them.

I was dozing in bed the other night and one fell from the ceiling onto me. Ordinarily I don't freak over spiders but the feel of it landing and crawling on my skin was just horrid!

There's also a much higher amount of really huge moths this year, ugh!

 

[x.Lilly.x]

eurgh if one landed on me i would be sobbing, i could not deal with that! yuck!
my spider spray came today and is suppose to kill them when you spray them. fingers crossed it works!

 

[MissJuly10]

That's bloody huge Jax! It looks about the same size as one I found UNDER MY PILLOW about 2-3 months ago! I was changing the bedding, lifted my pillow and I jumped out of my skin! I cringed to think what would have happened if I'd put my hands under the pillow during the night, it freaked me out so much, I checked under my pillow every single night after that.

It was fecking huge too, looked exactly like the one under that glass!!

x x

 

[Maria1977]

Only just dared look at this thread as hate spiders. Thought I'd got over my fear of them by my OH actually teaching me a bit about them but alas no! Pulled the sofa out to hoover underneath the other day and a massive spider was on the back, just behind where I was sitting. I screamed and nearly cried and begged OH to get out the bath and sort it... which he made me wait about 15 mins to do. Poor baby and dog sh*t their pants too... with the screaming lol

I can't kill them though, used to but now just have this overwhelming guilt even thinking about squishing or hoovering!

No way could I have got near that 1 Jaxx I would've literally cried.

Had a massive one on my bed once and didn't sleep in my bedroom for about 3 nights!

 

[Jaxx01]

I was nearly crying trust me but Im here on my own and had to get rid lol

I was watching something the other day and the man (someone who studied spiders) said that the theory that we eat spiders in our sleep is rubbish...basically the sound and vibrations of us breathing/snoring/sounding like a beast lol are the equivilent of humans throwing themselves infront of a train lol so that made me feel a lot better NOOOOOOOT!!!! The buggers are STILL crawling around putting the creeps into everyone!!! x

 

[Maria1977]

My OH was telling me that spiders can't even make us out really, we're too big for them to comprehend but I still feel like 'it's coming right for me' lol

If I'd saw one that big I'd move out

 

[bearsmummy]

I've just moved and I seriously have had loads! They just appear out of no where, I moved o's dressin gown the other day and a huge one fell out of it!

 

[x.Lilly.x]

so wud i, i sed to my mum if i get too many big ens im movin more into town area n not so out in the countyside x

 

[Yodabo]

In the 10 yrs i've been at this house i think i've only seen 3 spiders here! Must not like us...GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't stand them. I was at my friends house yesterday and she has a big orange one on her back door INSIDE the house!!!!! She told me it had been there for days She don't mind them, i was freaking out!

She has a victorian house so has loads of them but when she first moved in she showed us her basement and right where you duck your head to walk in where 2 massive spiders incased in a white wax???????? I think they were dead but i don't get how they were white? I think i have a photo of it somewhere. I'll see if i can find it. x

 

[julio]

euuuwwwww just reading this made me pick my feet up off the floor - i go completely and utterly hysterical.my husband goes mad and says i need professional help as i cant even walk past one.i hyperventilate and cry. i use airfreshener, hairspray and spray gel to stun them and then find something big to squash them with - they have to be killed or i am sure they will get me. i cant get a glass or anything, makes me physically heave looking at them. i do have a spider catcher - a plastic square that shuts them in the box, but i can only use that for little to medium ones.once they are in the catcher you are supposed to let them go outside but i am petrified they will come back so - and sorry animal and spider lovers - i put them in a sink of boiling bleach water and kill them
i wake up a lot in the night screaming that there is a spider and there never is - OH goes mental lol
he goes away with work a few times over the next month or so and my mum and dad are away too and i am already worrying over the little critters touch wood my cats will keep them at bay for a night or two and i will have all my sprays and catchers at the ready!!!
xxx