I honestly don’t mind spiders in the house – love the jumping ones. If one starts bothering us, I release it outdoors. According to a friend who is a biology professor, spiders gobble up other nasty little things we seriously don’t want in the house. So- we co-exist – except for the poisonous ones like black widows. I flip them into a jar of water and they drown. Easy and no pesticides.

My problems is my porches. I live in Southern Oregon and we have little spiders that make a million sticky little webs all over everything. They can make a porch totally disgusting place in just a few days.

I use peppermint oil spray to keep rodents at bay so your peppermint spray sounds wonderful. Is your spray recipe o.k. to spray all of the porch walls and ceilings or will it hurt the paint? I’ve never used any toxic chemicals on my property – I just want those pesky critters to go live somewhere else so I can enjoy my porches again. It’s been very hot down here – that seems to make things worse.

Thank you for this wonderful site. I’ll be seeing more of you.

Joni Chenoweth

Just pick the recipe you would like to try. They are just different ways to make it!

I spray 2-3 times a week personally, I don’t like spiders either!

I so hope this works, it seams pretty simple. I have a bunch of spiders coming in the house this year. It is even driving my cats crazy. I hate spiders that when I see one, I don’t get any sleep. It takes me like a week to get over seeing the spider and freaking out that it’s in my room or in my bed somewhere. Anyway, my question how often should I spray? Every week, every other day, etc…?

It shouldn’t, but I’d test I small piece of fabric before spraying it to be sure.

I hope you won’t have to dance again tonight! I’ve this great big fat pitch-black and hairy spider messing with my head. I see him run into my room, but then he just vanishes. So gross.