If a spider comes into your house, do you kindly catch it and throw it out? Or..

gemini rose I am so afraid of spiders and I just squash them when I see them as I used to let my son get rid of them but since I had one nasty spider bite on my head get infected and led to my having to go to the emergency room I just demolish hem whenever I see them except for the daddy long legs and they are not dangeroous so I have myson take them outside. lol

Mine go flying out the front door into the garden! That is,if the cat doesn't get it first..thanks for the link!

if they are close to the window we shove them outside otherwise we just squash them. I know spiders are important to catch flies, etc. Thanks for the site I will check it out.

I dont care about luck they creep me out. Now I never kill one myself as that takes getting close to one so I have others do it for me. My 8 year old thinks its funny that hes not scared and momma is. And no I did not check out the sight was afraid there would be pictures ewwwwww.

I have no problems with spiders. If it was for me, I would just let them be with their spiderwebs and all. However, I live with someone who's very affraid of them so I have to eliminate every spider I spot.

I just don't like harming living creatures unnecessarily, so I always catch them (using a glass and a piece of paper) and let them out.

I am scared of them lol so like you I will not go near them I just hope that they disappear lol I did try to Gissi once to get rid of one but he was just playing with it and would not stand on it or anything xxx

LOL poor rose! We used to get THE biggest spiders you have ever seen running across the wooden floor in the living room and I would shriek at the size and speed of them although I am not generally scared of them! I never usually kill them cos I think it is cruel when it is so easy to put them safely outside but if they were quick and I couldn't get it out I would splat them with a shoe - it was better than watching the cat chew it then spit it out! xxx

dang nab it. I posted and it went poo. Now I gotta start over. It was really good too. I hate spiders. I see one that thing doesnt have long to live. I cant believe something so scary and ugly could possiably be good luck. dang nab it thats why I have bad luck? naw. There is no way I'm catching a live one.

I had never heard the bad luck thing. That is interesting. My daughter is horribly afraid of spiders. This comes after her cousin spent time in the hospital for a brown recluse bite. If she sees one it a panic attack. Screaming crying,hyper ventilating. So if it is she and I I usually kill it.

Ugh! I checked out the website and couldn't finish reading it because that picture made my spine twitch like a leaf in the wind. I hate spiders. They terrify me. They give me the willies and make my shiver with fear. I didn't know they were supposed to be good luck if they are in your house. Great! Ugh! I have to admit that I kill them if I find them in my house. That is, if I can get to it without a doubt that it won't get on me. If it is on a wall or the ceiling, I will have my hubby take care of it for me because, I will surely miss and it will jump on me and bite me and maybe kill me instead. But, maybe now I will have my hubby catch it and take it outside...far away from the house. But, just so you know...I hate spiders. This entire discussion has me twitching and scratching and certain that one is crawling around on my head in my hair. Thanks! I needed a severe case of the creeps at 10 am! LOL!

No way would i ever intentionally kill a spider Rose,But lol i wouldnt pick it up and take it outside either.If we get one indoors hubby usualyy gets the dustpan out and sweeps it gently into the pan and then we put it outside.The big ones you get in the bath are a nightmare!!but i try to let threm go down the plughole.I trry having a chat with them,warning them of the impending rush of hot water!!!!...Im hte same with most insects...woodlice are a great favourite of mine...I should start a Save the woodlice fund!!..if im washing the kitchen floor one will often totter in front of me...and I tell it to run and go underneath the washing machine,where its safe!!..daft isnt it reaqlly,but just the way we are made...

mm..i will definitely catch it and throw it out.. guess what,the liquid which comes out when u stamp a spider can cause allergies and related reaction..so its better to catch him and gently put him out..

I am very scared of large spiders (can cope with smaller ones), but I never kill them. I grit my teeth, wait until they are still, then trap them in a glass. I then turn the glass upright - the spider can't crawl up the inside of the glass...it keeps slipping down to the bottom as its legs have nothing to grip onto. I then open a window or a door, and tip the spider outside. I don't think I do that because of the bad luck thing re: killing spiders - I think I do it partly because I'm a softie and hate to kill anything, and partly because though I have a terror of spiders, those you find in the UK are harmless and they are good for the environment in the sense that they keep the population of flies under control. I've no idea where my fear of spiders came from, as nobody in my family is scared of them in the slightest. I'll have a look at that link you provided....sounds interesting!

Although I have never heard of it being bad luck to kill a spider (of course that is relative, to the spider it would be immensely bad luck), I could never kill one. I always scoop them up onto a sheet of paper and carry them outside and wish them merry well on their way. Okay! Except for the one morning when I went to step into the shower and there was a spider bigger than the drain standing over the drain! I am telling you that this spider was big enough to have rented the cabin we lived in! I screamed like a girl and said there was not enough room for that spider and I both to live in the same space. My partner did not carry it out as gently on the bottom of her shoe as I carry mine out on the paper but I swear...it was HUGE!

We didn't by any chance have the same great-grandmother did we? LOL For as far back as I can remember I heard it was bad luck to kill a spider as well and that saying started with my great-grandmother...to this day I won't kill one either...unlike you I'm not scared of spiders though. If I see one I'll gently pick it up and put it in one of my plants. I think there really must be something about spiders being good luck ...it never fails...if I see some in my home the next day I get good news that one of my articles has been accepted and to be paid for it..sooooooo??????

I am one of those ones that catch it an put it outside they eat raoches an yes the only thing i am scared of is roaches don't know why I am I have handle snakes an spiders but i see a raoch I am so out of there

Well, I would just kill it, and be done with it. Forget the superstition..

I hope no one thinks I sound mean for doing this but I have 2 frogs and I just catch them and feed them to my frogs. Naturally if they were in the wild they would eat the spiders and if my frogs ran free they would just catch them on their own anyways so I see it as kind of doing what would happen in nature. I'm scarred of larger spiders but those are the ones my frogs love most so I suck it up and catch them and just toss them in with my giant frogs. Sometimes the spider might escape and vanish into the house never to be seen again, but usually the frogs are quick to spot them when they are climbing back up the glass to get out.

I have this century old bookshelf in the room , yes u can say its antique, and i find antique stuff very mysterious as how they look, dimensions and stuff. as how mysterious as it is it brought out a spider once while i was listening to music, the vibration of the sound from the loud music must have brought it out and it moved as i tried to move to get rid of it so what i did instead since i think it was looking at me, with its 8 eyes I'm sure it has a lock on me on at least one of those sniper scopes, i called someone else to get rid of it and it worked..i try not to think of spiders after i saw the movie "Eight Legged Freaks"