I thought you were going to say...."love/hate/indifferent"

Yeah!   They're beginning to appear - and I don't like it! 

lol, big girls blouse alert. I find mindless murder to be the best solution but I'm not allowed to kill them 

  With a picture. 

Mindless murder works for me.

As long as I can commit murder from a reasonable distance.

I don't kill them because it's 'bad luck' that's what the OH tells me anyway, so unluckily for him he has to go catch them and set them free coz I freak out when I see them

Although my mate is so terrified of them she slept on the sofa for 2 nights because there was one in her room so I had to be brave and go hoover him up then throw the hoover bag in the bin *pats back*

don't really have a problem with them. I just hate it when it gets really hot cause they get nasty & move bloody fooking fast. Which makes them impossible to catch. But hey ho that's just how it is

im terrified of 'em, little hairy barstewards they are

however

putting conkers in various corners of the room i supposed to keep them away

i have my conkers out already

ps

not sure if its 'conker season' yet

but i kept mine from last year

be prepared

I hate spiders, they terrify me.

They are evil, so if they come into my house they get splatted.

and mine Yogi - there is no negotiation

Death to the siders!

humph

That is a very imperialist attitude to take,

You are the Americans of the spider world!

There is no way one would last for 10 years in my world

I also kill earwigs.

Just rescued a large house spider from the kitchen sink by hand and popped her safely in a corner.I love spiders and can't understand  the irrational hatred some have for a harmless creature.Spiders eat many flies etc so are very useful too.

You can't just kill something because you don't like it.

Sorry that is just so flipping cruel

How did you know it was a lady spider?

The majority are,the males come out later in the year looking for lurve.....

Ohh I like that

We are in the minority here though Kitty

The males are the ones with longer legs and smaller bodies,they are the ones running about the floors in the late summer/autumn looking for the females.

I may post a giant picture of a house spider and scare them off  Issy....

I love house spiders.

I think it is because my Mum used to hate killing them too and would give them names. If a large one appeared scuttling across the floor, she would say, "Oh look here comes charlie"

How could I be scared of something called Charlie?

My youngest is terrified of them BUT she would never kill one and doesn't let anyone else kill them for her either.

It's like snakes.

I think snakes are gorgeous and yet many people are so scared of them

I like snakes too.I think it's because I've always had an interest in gardening etc .My late grandad gave me a little bit of garden to use when I was a child so I was used to seeing the garden creatures ,picking up worms etc watching beetles trundling along.I just find nature interesting in all it's forms.

I've always quite fancied getting a tarantula and keeping it in a tank.

my conkers are sooooooo last year..

I am the same.I am pleased cos I just rescued a silly bee who could not get out of the window. He was buzzing himself into oblivion... I am glad I found him. I love bees.

I never get them in the house now. I spray round my windows and doors with Raid cockroach killer. Keeps them out for 6 weeks  so I spray it every 4....just incase 

I'm a wee (big) bit scared of them but I have to be brave when one of the girls sees one. My heart will be pounding out my chest but I don't show it. My mother always said "they are more scared of you"....so why do they always crawl towards me? 

Yep! 

Spiders give me the shivery creeps so when they`re about I get son no. 2 to rescue them while I`m yelling, from a safe distance,   " be careful, don`t hurt it!"  He doesn`t, of course.

I used to say to my children when they were wee...all little creatures have a family..they`d miss them if they didn`t come home...just like we would.

Stretching it, obviously  but it gave them a sense of...it`s not just us who deserve to be here.

Hope that makes sense.....

I bloody hate them, but would never kill them. Im terrified of them. I have the ugliest fast big black ones that sometimes run into my house. Thankfully not very often *looks round room * Soon i will have two kitties that will save me from them, and thats out of my hands, thats nature

Not always Gypsie  Mine have been known to play with them for ages and then I used to find spiders crawling slowly across the carpet with 3 legs missing 

Perfect sense Scotty. That is how I was brought up as well.

*shudder* ....i bet that will happen to me, the only killer cats that like spiders

My cat ignores them as well..

See, it's better to just get them with the newspaper

Lovely, lovely spiders...

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I aim my cat at them sometimes...... but it's a bit of a bugger to do when they're on the ceiling.