Melissa in Australia Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Apparently the way to remove the big black spiders that are on the OUTSIDE of the kitchen Window is to take the vaccum out and suck them up.. Then just put the vaccum back in the house Thanks dh the spiders that were OUTSIDE are now planning their escape from the vaccum INSIDE the house 😲😲😲 1 27 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faith-manor Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 If dh did that here, he and the spiders would be sleeping outside together! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 😳😳😱😱 Yikes! Bagged or bagless vacuum? Dh should be emptying/cleaning it outside, far away from the house, asap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted January 1, 2023 Author Share Posted January 1, 2023 Bagless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Lol. When I was a kid, I remember vacuuming once at my aunt's when they were having a flea issue with the pets. And she was like, oh no, you just left the vacuum sitting there, we can't have that because the fleas will jump right back out. And she re-vacuumed the area where the vacuum was sitting then immediately put it in the garage. I have no idea if that made any difference, but it definitely stuck with me because I seriously think about the insects being sucked up in there nearly every time I vacuum. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Happy New Year 🍾🎉🍻 My husband would do something similar. He wanted to vacuum up the spiders in our home as well. Our vacuum cleaner does have a bag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted January 1, 2023 Author Share Posted January 1, 2023 2 minutes ago, Arcadia said: Happy New Year 🍾🎉🍻 My husband would do something similar. He wanted to vacuum up the spiders in our home as well. Our vacuum cleaner does have a bag. The difference being IN the house. These ones were the big black ones OUTSIDE that my dh has now brought in 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 There is a reason why Tolkien and J.K. Rowling have spiders as such effective evil characters…. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted January 1, 2023 Author Share Posted January 1, 2023 I am just having one of those absolutely jumping up and down frustrating days. The dishwasher packed it in. We are having 14 people over for dinner. They will start arriving in 40 minutes Dh lovingly thought he had better pull apart the dishwasher and see what is wrong... Now I have to try cook while standing astride his prostrate form. And how on the earth am I going to serve dinner with the whole kitchen floor now covered in tools and dishwasher parts. It is so kind and thoughtful for him to be trying to fix it. Knowing I will have a lot of dishes, but...... Argh!. Finding it hard to hid my frustration. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted January 1, 2023 Author Share Posted January 1, 2023 Oh and it is 36 oC and I only have a wood combustion stove, so about 200oC in the kitchen as I have this lovely huge lamb roast that I have been saving up for this moment of having all My children home at once. Hasn't happened in over 2 years. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Hope your day gets better!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YaelAldrich Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 I hope things get better and soon @Melissa in Australiaand that the spiders get moved back outside but really, really far away! We had torrents of water gush out of our smoke detectors last Thursday hours before all of our relatives came for the bar mitzvah. Fun times I tell you. Now we have a delightful square cut out of the ceiling in the dining room. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drama Llama Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Hopefully having all of your kids together will be so wonderful you forget the dishwasher parts. And @YaelAldrich congratulation on the bar mitzvah! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted January 1, 2023 Author Share Posted January 1, 2023 Dishwasher is a no go. Dh managed to get the whole thing shoved back into the space. All is well 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted January 1, 2023 Author Share Posted January 1, 2023 (edited) Now oldest ds found a red back spider in the guest room. And has decided to sleep in a tent. Seems like it is a never ending episode of I love Lucy here Edited January 1, 2023 by Melissa in Australia 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Just don’t do what someone I know did, which was then to spray the inside of the vacuum with insect spray and turn it back on. Blew up the motor and no more vacuum! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 If I vacuum up spiders I just leave it running a couple of minutes. I figure there’s a vacuum there so no oxygen so they suffocate right? Though I only vacuum the nasty ones huntsman’s get released outdoors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasProud Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 8 hours ago, Melissa in Australia said: I am just having one of those absolutely jumping up and down frustrating days. The dishwasher packed it in. We are having 14 people over for dinner. They will start arriving in 40 minutes Dh lovingly thought he had better pull apart the dishwasher and see what is wrong... Now I have to try cook while standing astride his prostrate form. And how on the earth am I going to serve dinner with the whole kitchen floor now covered in tools and dishwasher parts. It is so kind and thoughtful for him to be trying to fix it. Knowing I will have a lot of dishes, but...... Argh!. Finding it hard to hid my frustration. LOL.. my husband has done something similar many, many times. If something is broken, he HAS to fix it. Glad he got it put up before company got there! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 1 hour ago, TexasProud said: LOL.. my husband has done something similar many, many times. If something is broken, he HAS to fix it. Glad he got it put up before company got there! I don’t tell my dh until I’m willing to have the thing disassembled right then. My washing machine was giving me problems and I said nothing until it was unavoidable because he was halfway through another project I wanted finished more! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted January 1, 2023 Author Share Posted January 1, 2023 6 hours ago, fairfarmhand said: I don’t tell my dh until I’m willing to have the thing disassembled right then. My washing machine was giving me problems and I said nothing until it was unavoidable because he was halfway through another project I wanted finished more! You are wise 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasProud Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 22 hours ago, fairfarmhand said: I don’t tell my dh until I’m willing to have the thing disassembled right then. My washing machine was giving me problems and I said nothing until it was unavoidable because he was halfway through another project I wanted finished more! Yep, especially when the children were growing up, I would do this. Like if the vacuum cleaner broke, I would tell the children, do not tell dad until this weekend. Because if he stumbled in from being on call at 8pm and heard it was broken, he wouldn't want me to be without it, so he would fix it right then. Now it isn't quite as much of a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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