Things that spiders hate

Yesterday evening, I was sitting at my desk and suddenly I saw a spider, fat, brown, longlegged and about 5 cm in diameter, crawling OUT the window. Which is very curteous of the thing, since it saves me the heartattack and scream-inducing thrill of having to 1) approach 2)kill it. But it means that before it left, it was in the same room as I was. TERROR. I promptly moved to sleep in another room, because I'm just that ridiculously arachnophobic. Of course I didn't sleep at all, since I woke up constantly with "OMG I might be touching a spider" thoughts.

Tonight I came home and googled: THINGS THAT SPIDERS HATE

People make all kinds of silly suggestion, like "cats". Shyeah. My cats are fat, lazy and haven't caught anything but moths in years. I'm sure they would chase the spider: if it sat right in front of their nose and waved its many legs invitingly and then crawled away very slowly.

Other suggestions: chestnuts, citronella, vanilla (that must be wishful thinking), furniture polish, ladybugs, vaccuums...

I believe (in vain, probably) that spiders hate loud noises, because of the vibrations on the ground. So now I have the loudspeakers blaring loudly, but that isn't a permanent solution.

How the fuck would I have survived in the neolithicum?

Things that spiders hate

Yesterday evening, I was sitting at my desk and suddenly I saw a spider, fat, brown, longlegged and about 5 cm in diameter, crawling OUT the window. Which is very curteous of the thing, since it saves me the heartattack and scream-inducing thrill of having to 1) approach 2)kill it. But it means that before it left, it was in the same room as I was. TERROR. I promptly moved to sleep in another room, because I'm just that ridiculously arachnophobic. Of course I didn't sleep at all, since I woke up constantly with "OMG I might be touching a spider" thoughts.

Tonight I came home and googled: THINGS THAT SPIDERS HATE

People make all kinds of silly suggestion, like "cats". Shyeah. My cats are fat, lazy and haven't caught anything but moths in years. I'm sure they would chase the spider: if it sat right in front of their nose and waved its many legs invitingly and then crawled away very slowly.

Other suggestions: chestnuts, citronella, vanilla (that must be wishful thinking), furniture polish, ladybugs, vaccuums...

I believe (in vain, probably) that spiders hate loud noises, because of the vibrations on the ground. So now I have the loudspeakers blaring loudly, but that isn't a permanent solution.

How the fuck would I have survived in the neolithicum?