Spiders....

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:42 pm

I AM terribly afraid of Spiders...are you afraid of them too? As i get older i handle it a bit better, but they really upset me. HELP! I have even considered Eternal Citronella Candles in the Basement...GET away...

minks · Post by **minks** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 3:01 pm

Paula wrote: I AM terribly afraid of Spiders...are you afraid of them too? As i get older i handle it a bit better, but they really upset me. HELP! I have even considered Eternal Citronella Candles in the Basement...GET away...

This is called an irrational fear dear girl.

And the best way to conquer (sorry spelling sucks) this is to go to therapy for it or try helping yourself buy totally understanding spiders and what it is that makes you fear them and what actual threat they pose or do not pose.

Sounds complex yes, But what it is is you have to see them rationally and understand them and know that you can easily step on them before they get you.

HOWEVER!!!!

if your living where they spiders are gargantuan and poison then defend your home indeed.

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 3:06 pm

Spiders and Earwicks I hate.

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:16 pm

I HATE spiders too. I was bit once, and was supposed to go to the hospital but refused. I was bit a second time and went. I have a scar from it that is worse than scars from some surgeries. I hear hedge apples aka monkyballs are supposed to repel them. I'll let you know as soon as I find some.

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:37 pm

I am horribly, severely, INSANELY afraid of spiders!!!!! YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hate them all. When I was about 7, I was at my grandparents house in the country. I spent summers there and had this big beautiful room upstairs that I loved. One morning I woke up and found, to my utter horror, a large wolf spider dangling from the ceiling about and inch and a half from my nose. Now, I'm sure my memory of this even has enlarged the spider in my mind...However, I do recall being able to see all 8 of it's eyes. It was the most hideous thing I'd ever seen, and have been "irrationally" and deathly afraid of them since. Did you know that the venom in a Daddy Long-legs is deadly enough to kill a grown man, but that their jaws are so small they cannot bite a person? That is just freaky and WRONG! Anything with 8 eyes and 8 legs is just freaky and WRONG!!! Paula, I'm with you!

Another weird fact about spiders: Certain types of Tarantulas will shatter like glass if you drop them onto a hard surface.

rachelg · Post by **rachelg** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:42 pm

Some of them are quite beautiful if you take time to look at them. Some have such color! Irridescent blues and greens. I guess I'm not afraid of them since I know I can squish them if I need to. I was bitten by a large black one as a child when I thought I was picking up a cricket. I was very fond of bugs and frogs and the like as a child.

koan · Post by **koan** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:48 pm

Best way to get rid of spiders is to poke a couple of holes in chestnuts and leave them on windowsills around the house. It really works. Good luck finding the chestnuts.

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:45 am

minks wrote: you can easily step on them

It's very unlucky to kill spiders. Don't do it!

persephone · Post by **persephone** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:22 am

Bill Sikes wrote: It's very unlucky to kill spiders. Don't do it!That's a Londoner thing :-3

I've been scared of spiders since I was 9 and said to mum "There's something in my shoe"

"Take it off then and get it out"

I sat on the bottom step, took the shoe off, shook it. The spider went one way, the shoe the other and I ran up the stairs screaming. :wah:

pantsonfire321@aol.com · Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:47 am

Hi is it all spiders or just the pesky little ones that are really fast ? i used to be terrified of spiders but now i have a collection of tarranulars, crazy you may think but nooooo they are actully fasinating to watch, to see them molt and grow one i have is called a goliath bird eater and can get when fully grown to the size of a dinner plate spiders are quite harmless i conquered my fear and now i love them they are the perfect pet dont smell can look amazing (some are orange some with pink toes ,yellow, blue ) and dont take up much space and are very cheap to feed. Im still a bit jittery about house spiders because they are so fast but its a phobia you can over come i promise .sarah janexx

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:49 am

letha wrote: That's a Londoner thing

Is it? I don't know!

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:09 am

minks wrote: This is called an irrational fear dear girl.

And the best way to conquer (sorry spelling sucks) this is to go to therapy for it or try helping yourself buy totally understanding spiders and what it is that makes you fear them and what actual threat they pose or do not pose.

Sounds complex yes, But what it is is you have to see them rationally and understand them and know that you can easily step on them before they get you.

HOWEVER!!!!

if your living where they spiders are gargantuan and poison then defend your home indeed.

E-mail me your home address and i will mail you the squashed ones?

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:01 am

pantsonfire321@aol.com wrote: Hi is it all spiders or just the pesky little ones that are really fast ? i used to be terrified of spiders but now i have a collection of tarranulars, crazy you may think but nooooo they are actully fasinating to watch, to see them molt and grow one i have is called a goliath bird eater and can get when fully grown to the size of a dinner plate spiders are quite harmless i conquered my fear and now i love them they are the perfect pet dont smell can look amazing (some are orange some with pink toes ,yellow, blue ) and dont take up much space and are very cheap to feed. Im still a bit jittery about house spiders because they are so fast but its a phobia you can over come i promise .sarah janexx

pantsonfire...oh did you come up with a name like that? Are you over 50? Just to know you have touched a tarrantular is enough for me...i would rather have a mole for a pet than a spider like that.

pantsonfire321@aol.com · Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:05 am

Why do think im over 50 ,and i dont handle the spiders i have done but they are fragile so i dont really like to i dont get the big fuss. sarah jane

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:51 am

Bill Sikes wrote: It's very unlucky to kill spiders. Don't do it!
Yep, it's unlucky to kill spiders...It's unlucky for the spider that crosses my path!

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:41 am

pantsonfire321@aol.com wrote: Why do think im over 50 ,and i dont handle the spiders i have done but they are fragile so i dont really like to i dont get the big fuss. sarah jane

[I know you are not over 50, not even 30? AsSume.]

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:50 am

BabyRider wrote: Yep, it's unlucky to kill spiders...It's unlucky for the spider that crosses my path!

I know a chap who saw a spider in his shed... he chased it across the bench with a blowtorch - it went into a drawer. The drawer contained some inflammable things. The whole lot caught fire really *rather* quickly, and it burned out, destroying his T110 chopper and Kawasaki 750 LTD (good job in the last case).

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:50 pm

Note to self: Don't kill spiders with a blow torch.

Bummer about the bikes! :yh_sigh

cars · Post by **cars** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:56 pm

Marsue3417 wrote: I hate spiders the most because a brown recluse spider bit my husband once and he developed a rare infection called "Cellulitis." I had to stay up around the clock and take care of him. Or else he would have died. No-joke. I don't want to scare you even more. I am just simply saying that Knowledge is power. And knowing more about which spiders can do what, may help to conquer your fear. Pretty much what was said before. You may be surprised to find out that they are not all that scary after all. Very funny looking things. But not scary.

Marsue3417

I to was bitten by a brown recluse spider while asleep, and didn't know it at the time. When I woke, I saw a red bite lump on my forearm, did not pay to much attention to it. (Thought is was mosquito bite) Went to work, luckily I had a short sleeve shirt on, because one of my fellow workers said hey what's that red line going up your arm? I looked and sure enough out from the red lump a red line was going up my arm. I went to the company nurse, and she sent me to the hospital. There, they cleaned out the bite, (boy did it hurt) and gave me a shot of hemogloblin? They then told me I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. I don't like spiders either! :wah:

(Oh ya, they sent me home to rest for the remainder of the day)

Cars :driving:

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:41 pm

Spiders are evil I tell ya!

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:47 pm

pantsonfire321@aol.com wrote: spiders are quite harmless
Tell that to the people who have been bitten by brown recluse spiders. Of course, a whole bunch of those people are dead, so it would be a bit difficult.

If you were referring to your own spiders specifically, then perhaps some punctuation is in order. That's not a jab, just a suggestion!

minks · Post by **minks** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 3:44 pm

Paula wrote:

E-mail me your home address and i will mail you the squashed ones?

funny girl, you send them to me intact ok ahahaha

email them to spidergirl@gothumcity.ca

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:00 pm

I am more accepting of the spiders, when i first moved here i slept with my sneakers on? That is another reason why i married my husband, the house i lived in had spiders there too? I don't miss one at all. I have cans of spray ready at all times. No shrubs or plants around the foundation..i fight hard to keep them out!