Invade my house, you will not!

[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]

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.

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