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cob webs

Dinaki — Sun, 17 May 2020 18:53:56 GMT

My niece just telephoned me today from Athens to let me know that my house there has cob web on the kitchen wall.

Is something normal ladies for a summer home to have those?

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shaggygirl — Sun, 17 May 2020 19:19:14 GMT

I'm pretty clean yet I find cobwebs in my house now and then and it's not in Athens.....unfortunately. I prefer to call them wall hangings. It just sounds so much nicer.

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ECBG — Sun, 17 May 2020 19:24:22 GMT

A little spider can get in our houses any time.

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Dinaki — Sun, 17 May 2020 19:24:53 GMT

is it normal for a house to have "the wall hangings" then?

She said that tomorrow, she will buy something like this:

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SurferWife — Sun, 17 May 2020 19:29:07 GMT

@Dinaki

Yes, I think it's normal. I'm a stickler for a clean home. My housekeeper comes every other week & I maintain it in between. I'm always finding those annoying little things popping up, even after cleaning! We live a year-round warm environment so my windows stay open pretty much all year long, except for really hot days when I turn on the AC. My guess is living with open windows doesn't help the situation.

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geezerette — Sun, 17 May 2020 19:30:22 GMT

Yes, I would say it's "normal". At least it's always been normal in my houses!🤣

Even more so if the house is vacant for a while.

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GenXmuse — Sun, 17 May 2020 19:31:52 GMT

@Dinaki wrote:
is it normal for a house to have "the wall hangings" then?

She said that tomorrow, she will buy something like this:

I live in a warm climate and find these webs in my home too. I use a broom to get them down, but the wand you have pictured looks great.

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RedTop — Sun, 17 May 2020 19:38:33 GMT

Never been in a house that didn’t have evidence of dust/cobweb spiders somewhere.

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shaggygirl — Sun, 17 May 2020 22:15:15 GMT

Another broom user here. I don't see spiders or other signs of life in mine though. My most common place to spot my wall hangings are from the celing to the curtain rods. Or from the celing to a light fixture. Sometimes I don't even know they're there till the light comes in the window a certain way and highlights them.

Maybe I'll start leaving them in place and hang Christmas balls on them.

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ValuSkr — Sun, 17 May 2020 23:16:56 GMT

I think it's normal. What house doesn't have spiders? They're useful, after all.

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likeitis — Sun, 17 May 2020 23:55:18 GMT

my Aunt always called cobwebs, Peter Pans..made me giggle.

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Still Raining — Mon, 18 May 2020 01:04:00 GMT

Went out and fought the good fight on the front porch ceiling and came in to find one midway up a corner in the bedroom?? What, she couldn't get to the ceiling??

At least we don't have really big ones here, but spring is bad.

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ollie5 — Mon, 18 May 2020 17:14:01 GMT

My Mom used to call them "Irish Curtains"!

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candyagain — Mon, 18 May 2020 17:21:28 GMT

Yes, normal.

I never noticed a bunch of the cobwebs in my living room (I have a cathedral ceiling) until I had my cataract surgery....OMG!!

With the ceiling I have I've always had some sort of extension wand "broom". They're great.