My mother had an odd sense of superstition...and she instilled some of it in me (hey...thanks a shit-load ma!)...

Here's one of her more annoying sayings that I still adhere to...

"If you want to live in thrive...let a spider go alive"

And so...I very rarely kill a spider in my house, and NEVER outside...unless by accident (running over it with the mower or stepping on it before I realize). If they are small and harmless looking, I'll just scoot them out of the web in the corners of a room and clean away said web and go about my dusting.

The exceptions? Wolf spiders...black, half dollar size, hairy spiders with pointed legs. And grey or brown recluse spiders...which you may rarely see but more often experience it's bite first...and then, they are usually found in our barn instead of the house.

ALL spiders are venonmous...but some venom (quality and quantity) is worse than others.

One more note (cause I'm a blabbermouth...lol!)...It's a myth that "daddy long-legged" spiders cannot bite humans. They can, but it takes them a while to get riled up enough to do so, and then they have to position themselves in a precarious way to get in a good bite. If they do...it's gonna hurt and you will get sick, as they are one of the more poisonous spiders around here.

So, let's see what we learned from my mom here! If you want your house full of spiders, and friends shrieking when they come for a visit...let the little ones live in the corners of every room in the house!

Hey! I told ya she was a smart woman...but I think I also told you she was quite odd at times! LMFAO! *looking all around the room* HIYA MOM!

Keep your sexy bits safe Sharni!

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