First of all, you have to prove that it really is your house and not the spider's house.
@hardbitten said in #1:
> saw a large wolf spider at my feet in a warm, humid part of my basement. This is the time of Fall when the crickets seek the heat, and the spiders follow. Having one of these big leggy hairy black things run across you while on the sofa is not cool. :-\
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> So I dropped a 1 gal plastic bottle of liquid on it, and told my wife "I GOT it".
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> Next day same big arse spider on the floor in the morning nearby. Swatted it (sorry its my house and the spider on the bare leg thing). OK so a spider can escape an object falling directly overhead at 1G because, duh, they survived stuff falling on them millions of years. So it got away from the falling jug.
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> Go to move the jug, huge smashed spider there too. Agggg. So big each of the two pieces looks like a big spider. Plus the first one, when dropped into the rubbish can, made a NOISE when it hit. That is a big spider.
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> What should I do?