Holy Spider Central. I have now lost count of how many spiders we have killed. Take note I said Kill. We have stopped rescuing them. We kill on the spot now. We kill so many our son says he now kills things.
Yes I am bothered. No, I don't like it. These spiders are HUGE. They can hurt you. Most importantly though, they can hurt my children and therefore they must die. Its a good freaking thing they are so big they are impossible to miss. It sucks when you do kill one because they crunch.
We find them mostly downstairs. I did find one upstairs, in my kitchen, dead. I was greatly offended. My kitchen isn't the cleanest place but come on. He was in the middle of my floor, dead. I found one on my ceiling, my raised ceiling. I was so pumped. I woke up before the kids. I was going to have coffee and look at the beautiful day and have nice quiet peace. Nope. Walked into my living room and bam, huge ass spider crawling along the ceiling. Kissed my sweet morning and sleeping kids goodbye. I got my broom out and actually broke it hitting the spider so hard with it. Spider died and the kids did sleep, WIN! Tonight, James killed one when it crawled out from under the stove and booked it to our sweet boy who was playing with a box of goodies from grandma. It took James quite awhile to calm down from the horrible "what if" thoughts.
We find them all the time in the garage and the downstairs bathroom. We are quite perplexed by how they are getting in. Ws it just a huge spider orgy in here while the place was vacant? Are they breeding in the trees and coming in? I tried looking up on Pinterest what they hate. Lavender and peppermint was what I was told. Nope, fat lies. I have three fat spiders living IN my lavender bush. Those ones are not hobo spiders so they get to live outside. We bought a playhouse on CL that unfortunately was housing big spiders. I doused it in peppermint oil and still find spiders in it. I just keep killing them.
