Spiders....aaaargh!

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So its 12.30 AM last night and I'm laying in bed bumming about on the laptop with my bedside lamp on.
It was sleepy time so i go to turn the light off and I think in my head that (very strange) there's a giant moth or insect about. freeeaky.
Anyway I turn the light off, lying on my side looking at the laptop and I see something dark moving next to me at the corner of my eye.
I **** my pants and turn the light off absolutely certain my previous theory was correct.
As the light goes on I see, no word of a lie, A bloody HUGE spider running up my curtain. Brown in colour, with a large obdy and thick legs, aaargh.
So i run ,for my life, downstairs and set up camp on my sofa :(
I couldn't sleep due to paranoia of more crawlies. I even locked my kitten in the lounge with me so he could potentially catch any, lol, about as much use a chocolate fire extinguisher!
I didn't sleep till 6.30 AM till about 9 AM!
And nw its time to sleep again, I refuse to go in my room so am sleeping in the room next door, I am getting the paranoid feeling that I have eight legged company so I'm fully clothed. Uggs boots included! With all the lights on, despite having to be up at 5AM.
Bladdy SPIDERS.
Please someone tell me that I'm not alone on being a total nutter and petrified of them/ give me some nice advice. Pretty sure nothing will work though!
 
Aaaaaaagh :eek::eek::eek:
Im with you, no way I could sleep knowing a tarantula is lurking somewhere.
Sorry to be of no comfort at all but Id be on the settee until it was found :(
 
reading this made me lol...! mainly because it sounds the same as me, they are disgusting i'l probly have nightmares just cause I read your thread! i havnt saw any in my house for ages thank god but I cant sleep if I know ones in the room OH gets sent to get it even if its 3am. I think we've got issues lol, so i would appriciate any advice of how to get rid of my fear too, you're not alone! :D
 
That made me laugh i love spiders:) flies i hate :mad: they wont harm you and i think the little critters get a really bad rep, although my sister hates them and i know lots of people who do, they are really pretty cute if you could just give them a chance.

Just think of all the nasty flies they are protecting you from and think how scared you would be if a huge giant wearing strange boots made out of sheep
was trying to sleep next to you.
 
Trinity fox-i have to ask what the duck is cute about spiders lol?
im sorry i know flies carry germs and are pretty gross but id prefere a fly in the room than a spider :o
 
Well they are furry or have gangly long legs and when i try to pick them out of my bath they scarper and i have a mahoosive one that i let live on my stairs who likes to alarm visitors by jumpimg down them. I guess i had better not mention on the lower floor of my house loads of slugs invade every night but i must say my dog does not discriminate i have to stop her from eating flies slugs spiders the lot although slugs the worst as they carry lungworm so you should be more scared of them than spiders.

I may have to start a protection society, i did get in to a furios fight with a friend at primary school for killing a sider ha ha.:p
 
And i have just realised i am replying to Hamish1 one of my horses is called Hamish and he is a scaredy cat and terrified of everything maybe this is the case with all Hamishhhs ha ha i may set up a Hamish spider appreciation society that was hard to spell after wine so if its wrong i apologise profusely.:)
 
Yep, fellow arachnophobes, September 1st is when the SMALLER male house spiders come into the house looking for the females. Must be a bit early this year. Climate change and all that maybe. They terrify me rigid and BEWARE of hoping your kitten will save you because she MIGHT catch one and jump on your lap with it still wriggling in her mouth to share her prized catch with you. It's too late now but you can buy a "spider deterrent" spray that you squirt round windows, doorways, cat flaps, under sinks, bedrooms etc. Also, if you apply a liberal coating of any good household "space" flea spray (the sort you spray on all the floors, not on the cat or dog) throughout your house you should see a reduction in spider numbers because it's unpleasant for them.

Have to say though, the house spiders round our way are SAS trained and can get indoors by abseiling, parachute, underground tunnel networks, who knows. The only 100% certain way to have a spider-free September is to buy a brand new house. You've got about 3 years before they suss you out, then you have to move again. If you're determined to regain your life, I think the London Zoo run Arachnophobes Therapy courses. If you're very sensitive, look away now. They have 2 giant bird eating spiders called (honestly) Sharon and Tracey and by the end of the course, students are guaranteed to be able to have either Sharon or Tracey scuttle up and down their bare hands and arms {{{{shudder}}}}
 
Box_Of_Frogs said:
Yep, fellow arachnophobes, September 1st is when the SMALLER male house spiders come into the house looking for the females. Must be a bit early this year. Climate change and all that maybe. They terrify me rigid and BEWARE of hoping your kitten will save you because she MIGHT catch one and jump on your lap with it still wriggling in her mouth to share her prized catch with you. It's too late now but you can buy a "spider deterrent" spray that you squirt round windows, doorways, cat flaps, under sinks, bedrooms etc. Also, if you apply a liberal coating of any good household "space" flea spray (the sort you spray on all the floors, not on the cat or dog) throughout your house you should see a reduction in spider numbers because it's unpleasant for them.

Have to say though, the house spiders round our way are SAS trained and can get indoors by abseiling, parachute, underground tunnel networks, who knows. The only 100% certain way to have a spider-free September is to buy a brand new house. You've got about 3 years before they suss you out, then you have to move again. If you're determined to regain your life, I think the London Zoo run Arachnophobes Therapy courses. If you're very sensitive, look away now. They have 2 giant bird eating spiders called (honestly) Sharon and Tracey and by the end of the course, students are guaranteed to be able to have either Sharon or Tracey scuttle up and down their bare hands and arms {{{{shudder}}}}
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ARGH! that course is SO not happening for me!
Being the saddo that I am, convinced it was a giant tarantula, I googled the spider looking for the type I got living in my room. It's the British House spider, looks exactly like them, huge, brown, ugly.

Maybe I should move to a top story flat, surely then I'd be spider free?!

I got an amazing idea of buying mosquito net material the wrapping myself head to toe in it, surely then I'd be invincible!

I slept for a few hours intermittently, I woke up every hour or so in a state of panic convinced there was one on me!
eew got the shudders thinking about it, dreading tonight's sleep, later, as well. Back on the sofa for me!
I'm also terrified of slugs too... and wasps and bees and ladybirds and anything that has wings other than the common house fly!
 
My family are all terrified of spiders and we get some bigun's in our place.

I say to you that same thing I say to them: The vacuum cleaner is your friend.
 
Eurgh, yuck yuck yuck. I do NOT like big spiders in my house. We get these house spiders which I SWEAR are mutants, they're enormous. I cannot sleep if I know there's a large spider in the room and don't know where it is, therefore I have to squish them or put them outside. Although I used to live in Borneo and we got huntsman spiders (huge and brown and hairy) in the house, which would actually chase you, I hated them! And scorpions and geckos, but I never minded those lol.

Oddly enough, I think tarantulas are awesome, I think it's because they're so massive you can see their faces properly :p strange, I know.
 
I'm with Trinity Fox, spiders are your FRIEND, because they clear up the absolutely DISGUSTING HORRIBLE flies which land on dog poo and then on your fruit bowl, etc etc. I am utterly terrified of flies because they are SOOOOOOO filthy. They vomit on their 'food' to liquidise it and then suck it up. That is beyond disgusting and into a whole new place of utter yeukyness.
Spiders read vibrations through their legs to work out how big something caught in their web is (big vibrations = could be too big to manage, so leave alone) so just the weight of your footfalls can be enough to terrify them, they run off and hide and sometimes have a heart attack from the terror, and die. :( :( :(
See, not so frightening now....
Also, if they were pink and sky blue, I doubt we'd all be so terrified of them, it's because they're black. See... racism, innit?!?! (that, btw, is a JOKE. honestly, it's just supposed to lighten the fear of them and maybe lead to a few blameless little pideys escaping murder...)
no need to suck them up the vacuum, poor little things. what a horrible way to go.
SPIDER REMOVAL PROTOCOL:
take a big glass (pint glass if you like, that'll keep your hand well away from the pidey) and put it over the cowering, terrified, timorous wee beastie. GENTLY slide a thin piece of cardboard, or an envelope, under the glass, being careful not to pull the spider's legs off (they're very delicate), push card against rim of glass, lift the whole shebang up. Tip over so spider falls to bottom of glass. Keep lid on. Peer at grateful cowering spider through glass. Cute, huh? Bless. Carry to window or door or outside into garden if it's cold and you don't want your Homing Spider to come back in... ;) Take 'lid' off. Carefully upend and shake the glass. Watch darling little critter scamper gratefully away to live the rest of his little life...
As for flies... kill 'em. Kill 'em all.
;) ;) ;)
 
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