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[Carmie]

I am not a fan of spiders and they seem to like to hang around to irk me.  Every morning in the summertime, there is a big, fresh spiderweb on my kitchen window.  I get a broom and sweep it away, but by the next day, it's back.

Also, there is a huge spider web across my back door daily. I have walked through it especially at night while taking my dogs out and it is creepy.

When I was a teenager, I walked into the kitchen from outside and there was a small spider suspended from a string  of webbing at my face level.  The element of surprise got me and I opened my mouth and inhaled. Ahhhh!  You guessed it.  I swallowed the spider.  I screamed so loud that I alerted the neighbors.  My sister was laughing and trying to get me to drink water, but I was trying to gag him out.

From that day forward, I have hated the buggers. 

[Venezia]

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@Carmie wrote:

I am not a fan of spiders and they seem to like to hang around to irk me.  Every morning in the summertime, there is a big, fresh spiderweb on my kitchen window.  I get a broom and sweep it away, but by the next day, it's back.

Also, there is a huge spider web across my back door daily. I have walked through it especially at night while taking my dogs out and it is creepy.

When I was a teenager, I walked into the kitchen from outside and there was a small spider suspended from a string  of webbing at my face level.  The element of surprise got me and I opened my mouth and inhaled. Ahhhh!  You guessed it.  I swallowed the spider.  I screamed so loud that I alerted the neighbors.  My sister was laughing and trying to get me to drink water, but I was trying to gag him out.

From that day forward, I have hated the buggers. 

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@Carmie - LOL.  Think how the poor small spider felt!  One minute just hanging around minding its own business and the next...............!

[ptagirl]

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@Sweetbay magnolia wrote:

I don't mind spiders.  I actually think they are interesting, and I do even let them roam in the home (within reason).  There was one that kept coming into the powder room from under the toe molding that did bother me (it was a big wolf spider).

No, my house does not look like the Addams Family!  I just love ecology.  All things have a purpose.

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I think you would feel different if they were something poisonous. 

I lived in an area with an infiltration of spiders in my basement.  Some were brown recluse spiders, which can leave a large deteriorating gaping wound ( I know because I treated them when I was working in the medical field) if they bite you. 

I had my basement furnished with furniture, etc.  When we finally moved, there were spider egg sacks under every piece of furniture, in drawers, etc.  Believe me , I was a fighting spiders for a long time.  I was afraid of even cleaning my basement as I was afraid of getting bitten. 

Everything  does have a purpose, but you do have to be careful when it comes to bugs of any kind...

[Venezia]

@ptagirl -  I agree with you; an infestation of poisonous spiders would be a completely different thing.  In that case, I would call in the experts.

Where I am, we don't have poisonous spiders like that, although any spider bite can be a nasty thing.  In general, I "live and let live" but, in all seriousness, if my home were infested, I'd do what I had to to protect it.

For me, mice can be the problem.  I'm not afraid of them and can even "appreciate" their ingenious means of survival.  However, my home is off limits.  If they invade, they're gone.  We have 20 acres they can inhabit; they don't need my home as well.