Invade my house, you will not!

[csquared]

Spiders eat bugs. Spiders are good.

But I still don't let them in the house.

Sign me:
Designated household spider killer (The Wife hates them as bad as you do).

[Caffienated_Caramel]

I don't mind them outside as much. If they're near the door or in, then I want them gone.

I remember when we lived in a tiny apartment, there was a St. Andrew's spider up in the corner ceiling. I tried killing it twice with bug spray but it wouldn't die. Eventually, I accepted that it was going to be there to catch the bugs and I just glared at it going. 'Fine...you earned your keep. Just stay up there to catch mosquitoes or I'll kill you.'

[MoonCat]

A friend of ours used to make a bargain with them. She told them if they stayed up high on the wall or on the ceiling, they could stay, but if they came down all bets were off...

She swore it worked.

Not for me. I trap them in a jar and take them outside (and let them go beside the nasty old lady's lawn next door ) I am not happy to do this, but I don't like to kill them. Most of the time.

[Food Lady]

Don't kill 'em! Sorry--I try to kill as few animals as possible. I just had a conversation with my latest 3/4-inch houseguest. I told it "As long as you don't crawl into bed with me, you're welcome to stay."

[kpzra]

Most spiders I leave be, but black widows are free game around here since we have a 2 year old. This house hadn't been lived in for over a year so they were EVERY WHERE. So far none, but I can't wait until we can get back home to Alaska where there aren't many bugs besides mosquitoes.

[Marmalady]

I never kill spiders (having been brought up with the idea that it's bad luck to kill them) although I might feel differently if I had to deal with black widows....

[Merriweather]

Quoth blas

Yeah...I just moved back home, my family is a bunch of slobs and I've spent the last 4 or 5 days trying my absolute hardest to get this house somewhat clean again and not such a breeding ground for....bugs.

If you have flowers, shrubery, anything remotely resembling a garden outside, then you're going to have the odd garden spider in the house no matter how immaculate you keep the place. Nothing at all to do with cleanliness.

Quoth cashierbex

I qould fricking be in Canada quicker than the speed of light if I saw a small spider, let alone a bunch. Screw that. My manager had a problem with black widows last year. Forgot how she got them out.

My daughter is scared of spiders. She's gotten better over the year, she was quite bad as a teen. At one point, she and her friends decided that they were going ot "cure" her of this, and they all rallied around her for moral support & comfort - and took her to the cinema to see Arachnaphobia I had to deal with the aftermath, it was not pretty. Teenagers, what on earth were they thnking