Lately, we have been having problems with spiders in the basement. I know, hard to believe, huh? Not the basement! (if you can't hear the sarcasm, you don't know me very well)When Bill and I had our room downstairs, we trekked through all the unfinished parts of the basement and turned a not so blind eye on all the spiders. Live and let live was the unspoken motto.
Now that the kids live down there, it is a different story.
First of all, there are no longer any unfinished parts to the basement, so there is no spot where spiders would be remotely tolerated. It's not like it used to be when I thought to myself, 'that's okay, that corner is dark and creepy anyway, if they stay in that corner, they can live.'
Second of all, neither of the kids is lion hearted when it comes to spiders, even when the spiders are little ones. The spiders we have been dealing with the past couple of weeks are not little. Nope. These are on the big side of scary. Helena found one on her bed and wouldn't sleep on it for the rest of the week. One afternoon we killed four largish spiders within 30 seconds of coming down the stairs. Will found one on his clothes hamper in his closet.
It was time for action.
Fortunately, I had some Raid foggers in the cupboard upstairs. We set four of them off in the basement and left the house for the day to let the killing fog work its magic! After lunch at McD's, some work in my classroom, some shopping at WalMart, a visit to Kirsten, and some relaxing time at the pool, it was time to assess the damage.
I vacuumed up at least 10 dead spiders, and I hope there are many more in places less accessible! If nothing else, it has restored the kids' sense of security in the basement... for the time being!
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