Great, awesome. Thank you so much. Now I am checking every inch of my desk for "surprises"!

If you even made it to the end of this post, I applaud you...

So many houses to burn down...so little time.

Here's a spider we had at our camp in NNY- that's a 2x6 she is on. spider-201...c54e7e.jpg

When I go camping I take my kids spider spotting at night. We have our head lamps on and scour the area to see who can see a sparkle first (reflection from the spiders eyes). You would be amazed at how many spiders there are in such a small area. First time I saw the sparkle, I thought ooh, someone must have lost some jewellery but when I went to pick the sparkly thing up, it moved and realised it was a spider.

Am I the only one who's cool with spiders? I mean, they do have very cute fluffy paws

I hate it when they crawl into places that get them hurt.

I had a spider crawl out of my sink, it wasn't small either, all I wanted to do was take a brush my teeth after taking a shower. I also know I have arachnophobia so I shouldn't have read this article :) now I'm going to have nightmares.

I love spiders! And I am scared of them too lol

Once in my brother's room, there was a huntsman spider that was about the size of my dad's hand. Also, i was always afraid to go near the old barbecue because there was a giant spider that lived behind it... Australia is full of them, i swear..

Why is this the first post that shows up on the site?!

Was about to car-camp for the night during a trip across California, when I looked up and saw about a 3cm spider in the ceiling grip handle. I have obviously never forgotten it.

I have a spider protocol. If I find it during the day, in the kitchen, sitting still, or on a ceiling (not over my head) it has a 50% chance I'll catch it and relocate it. If it's in the bathroom, bedroom, or I'm naked, mother f****r gotta die. If it startled the s**t out of me by moving suddenly into view during the evening when I'm alone, first I sic my cats on it till I calm down, then I kill it because my cats are useless and never finish the job.

Oh my ... I hate to have to do this, but I'd even more hate to not do this despite having to ... anyway, please get over the habit of killing spiders "just because". They're NEVER intending to do you any harm, let alone plot an assassination. Educate yourself about the spiders in your place of residence. Know how to identify dangerous ones. Learn which, regardless of their abilities in harming humans, can pose a threat to your pets. Tarantulas' poison won't do much to a human, but dogs or cats, as predators of the next bigger size, who might try to hunt and eat Tarantulae, are the natural target of their defensive poison. They don't hunt using webs or other traps or by paralyzing their prey, but by wrestling them immobile. But, anyway and especially to my fellow europeans, who don't know dangerous or large spiders from the wild (a body of a human thumb's size is, in germany, considered huge - the spiders we considers small are invisible to Australians, or qualify as aeroplankton, ...), don't kill them, thro them out. Ballistic relocation, this is called, and it has the benefit of neither killing the spider, nor praising a human for executing that atrocious AH-habit. In case you're a genuine sufferer of Arachnophobia - seek help. It's not your fault, but neither the spiders'.

I NEED UNSEE JUICE ASAP

Trying again - came out the back door of my garage to find this lady attached to her web on the outside - call her Charlotte. She's a Golden Orb Web spider. 45-Apr-201...a8c1c6.jpg

Oh this reminds me... there's still a decent-sized spider in my laundry room

Happy living in England with boring small spiders!

I tried. I tried to make it all the way through the whole list. . .but instead now I am going to scour my bathroom, do ALL my laundry again, throw out my grapes and might just set fire to my garage to be safe. Cheers!

Cannot go past 15 posts. Ewwwwwwww

Spiders have an affinity for coffee and tea apparently.

I made it to #19 and had to stop looking. Too heeby jeeby.

I will not be eating or sleeping or anything any time soon thanks

Well.... I'm never sleeping again... or eating....or living in my house....anyone else?

Went kayaking with my daughter for the 1st time last week. We were paddling close to shore for some photos, when my face narrowly avoided a whole cluster of baby spiders. Just ew.

Ima be sending my pig in to eat all the nightmares away!

My husband always comes out with this stupid rhyme: "If you wish to live and thrive, let a spider run alive". I've usually killed the bastard by the time he gets to the second line. Just nope.