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What is everyone doing to keep spiders at bay over the next few months?? I’ve encountered a few beasts in the last few days and I can’t stand them 
PayItForward well there is tea tree oil too that hate it few drops with water lol
Leannexxx ah great thank you! I’ll go to home bargains tomorrow and get some. We had one on our bed the other night and I freaked out lol
PayItForward hell no I'd burn my bed lol I'm so bad with them I have panic attacks when I see them
JLouM thank you. I love the smell of peppermint too - so I think I’ll have to get one of these also.
JLouM oh noooo! At least you weren’t standing in the shower and had one come runnning straight towards you. I think that’s happened to everyone at least once lol
making me shiver.
So far nothing too big inside but daughter has seen a couple outside when cleaning the gutters, her choice to do that when we were out. We have five cats now so may use them to get any. They caught a dragonfly yesterday and we had to save it, but spiders they can do what they like with them.
eyeballkerry we maybe need to get another 3 cats. We only have two and they are useless at helping with these spiders lol
PayItForward We have two adult cats and three kittens. The kittens are very interested in anything moving from a leaf to a squirrel. I had a cat previously who would kill birds, play with mice and once did have a squirrel in its mouth. Not sure if the cat had killed it or just found it.
JLouM fingers crossed 
lol. I got one of those too - so I’m hoping for the best. I’m fine with wasps and other creepy crawlies, but spiders freak me out
I heard conkers on windows sills helps they don’t like them toxic .. not sure if works . I think I’ve heard it few times
LL81 to be honest, I’ll try anything to keep them out lol. It’s conker season too - so won’t be an issue getting any
LL81 i have conkers all over the place and it seems to help a lot. I’m glad i have grandkids that are willing to go conkering for me !
Found an insect when I was going to take a shower this morning, so just sprayed it with water and killed it. It might have been inoffensive, but it grossed me and who knows if it'd try to bite me.
PhilipMarc I rolled over on a spider in bed when I was 18. Didnt even know there was one in bed with me until I woke it the morning and it was squashed onto my leg. A few hours later I had to go to the doctor as my leg went up like a balloon. Rushed to hospital and out on an IV. I was told I might lose my leg - thankfully I didn’t. But I didn’t walk right for about 2 months. I still have the scar on my leg from it after the massive hole from infection
PayItForward How awful. I didn't even know a spider could cause you so much harm. I am glad you have fully recovered.
PayItForward same happened to me
I was about 16, woke up got out of bed, went for a Johnny cash
came back to bed & there smack bang in the middle of the mattress was a giant house spider
(dead) I must have squashed it during the night..
it was bloody massive! Didn't bite me thankgod
I didn't go back to bed after that...
PayItForward i ended up in hospital from a spider bite. I was already scared of them now they make me feel physically sick.
Peppermint essential oil.They just change places though.I don't mind the odd one or two they keep flies at bay!
MelissaLee1 I’m terrified of them. Luckily we don’t tend to get too many flies in - the cats are good at getting the flies, and I don’t mind swatting them myself. But I can’t deal with the spiders
My mum encountered a large one the other night, came across her living room, she tried to get it with a spider catcher but it got away and ran under her free standing fridge freezer. She left it there and went to bed. No way could I have gone to bed!
eyeballkerry nope! I had my husband lift our bed the other night because one ran underneath I knew I wouldn’t sleep knowing it was in the room. I hoovered it and got him to take the hoover outside and empty it. He doesn’t like to kill them, but I couldn’t lift it and couldn’t hold the bed
PayItForward I don’t particularly like killing them but if they lived outside, where they belong I would not have an issue with them. I’m the same with the vacuum, obviously it’s dead when it’s been sucked up but I still want it emptied.
eyeballkerry I heard that sometimes they don’t die and crawl back out I don’t take the chance now lol
PayItForward if someone has hoovered a spider up for me i make them empty the hoover outside!
Just catch them and let them out. Had a wolf spider scurry past my foot the other day and it was huge…but they’re more afraid of us than we are of them. They’re great at keeping the other pesky bugs at bay
hspexy my husband will lift them out. For smaller ones I can get them with the spider catcher and put them out. But I don’t go near the big ones. I scream and he knows he’s to come and get it
PayItForward lol the big ones can still make me shudder if I see them looking at me with all their eyes…but I mostly find them fascinating and appreciate them from afar
We have had a couple of small spiders in today and they just get put back out, a friend of mine swears by using conkers to ward them off.
luckily I'm not at all bothered by spiders, just pick them up and release them outside . For those that are bothered you can get a spider catcher that will scoop up the spider and allow you to release it outside without harming it
Just had a massive one in my bathroom half an hour ago. As an arachnophobe, September is my most disliked month of the year. I always look forward to October when spider season comes to an end.
Not scared of spiders , I saw 2 same size follow each other from a crack in our wall...I made sure that's all there was!
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