Christmas Spider Chaos
Hi fellow Hiveians,
Today I wanted to laugh about the shortest lived Christmas tree I've ever known!
Christmas Spider Chaos
Christmas time is one of my favorite times of year for sure. It has so many wonderful memories, smells and themes to it that I've looked forward to all year. What is one of the best things for me to look forward to as well is getting our Christmas tree!
Christmas trees are pretty awesome in a lot of ways but the specific kind of tree that we like to get is called a Concolor Fir info and it's been a staple in our house for several years now. We recently found our best tree we've ever had and it was perfect shape, height and even price. You know what they say though.. some things are too good to be true! LOL
It all started when we got the tree cut down. The place that we always went to before had a tree shaker machine so that it would shake the trees and that would get the excess needles out but it would also theoretically disturb all the bugs like spiders and others out of the tree so that we can get rid of those critters in their outside natural habitat and not bring any friends home with us.
The farm we went to said they had a tree shaker.. but what they failed to tell us is that the tree shaker is on the other side of the farm, you know, not the one that we were at lol. So it already started out a little sketchy. We were too excited about finding a perfect sized and shaped tree though so we seemed to have ignored the warning sign right there.
We get home and started to get things set up. We put the tree in the stand, got it positioned well and cut the netting so that it would release and we could start to decorate it. We got about an hour into decorating it and I needed to go out and do some errands so I had left but about halfway through the drive to my destination I got a message from my wife but since I was driving I couldn't check it of course.
When I got to the store I was planning on, I looked at my phone and there were several messages lol. My poor wife is deathly afraid of spiders even though these are likely ones that won't affect us in any way but just want to hang out in the warm temperatures we've got in the house and eat any bugs that happen to be around. Nope, didn't matter! Lol
She was freaking out that we had a spider in the house and of course I wasn't home to calm her nerves and kill the thing and then give the tree a shake and a look to see if there were additional critters to be had. Being out at the store, she was pretty upset. I was meandering about the store and I got another message that there was a second spider in the house and now she was questioning whether or not she wanted that fucking Christmas tree in the house! LOL I felt bad but what was unfortunate is the store I was in must have had some kind of cell phone reception blocker or something because the next 20 minutes of me in the store I had no service for whatever reason, even though the area was quite populated and should have been perfectly fine for service.
I get out to the car and all hell broke loose at the house lmao. In the time that I was out not one, but THREE spiders had made it's way out of the Christmas tree and my wife was about to grab a lighter and burn the tree to a crisp so she didn't have to deal with the critters any longer lol. I don't know how she caught one, I think she knocked it down and the little man ran over to grab it but she apparently got one! It looks like a pretty average spider to me, one that is just looking for a meal! Lol
No reasoning with her though when it comes to spiders and her fear. She was finished and demanded I get home NOW so that I can get this abomination of a tree out of the house or she's going to stay at a hotel for a few days lol. I laughed a little bit to myself because it was just a couple of spiders but she's got a pretty bad case of arachnophobia so I couldn't do anything to dissuade her out of her mission to get rid of the Christmas tree that we just bought a few hours before! We didn't even have the tree in the house for 6 hours before I came home and pulled it out of the stand and threw it in the woods lol
That was definitely my fastest amount of time to ever have had a Christmas tree in my house! I think we may get another tree but this time it will go through the shaker and I think I'm going to leave it on the roof of the car for a few days so that I can let the spiders crawl off it and wander around before we bring it in the house lol. If my wife had her way, we would be getting a fake tree and never another real one! With a 2-1 vote though, she lost that lol
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Just like your wife, I am scared of spiders, too. Hehe. I have not tried a tree shaker in the farm, I wonder how it was done to get rid of the spiders and other insects. Here in my side, we are doing it manually. You know what is interesting, it is the idea of having a real tree and not a fake one. Hehe. Are you putting something so the Christmas tree will last longer without drying?
At home, I started putting up the Christmas tree last September 1. It is the first day of the -ber month. Seemed I was excited for Christmas but the main reason for it is in memory of my late sister because she was the one putting this for us.
I enjoyed reading your content although I am scared of spiders, heheh. Have a wonderful day my friend and take care always.
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Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry but this did make me crack up a little the way you described it. YOur poor wife, I feel for her I really do, but seems like such a waste. I don't like spiders much myself but I probably would have been ok to just catch them and chuck em outdoors.
Definitely go with a real tree though, they always look so pretty in comparison to the fake ones.
Hahah yeah I know I was a bit surprised she took it so intensely as she did but that’s one of her big fears. We talked about it the morning after and she said she didn’t sleep well because she was afraid spiders were going to come crawling out and bite us while we were sleeping. I slept like a baby lmao
We lost the battle for real versus fake tree! She ordered a fake one lol what I think we will do in the future is when we get a house we will plant one of these beauties in the yard so we can decorate it outside and not have one inside so she doesn’t get her bug fears and I still get my real tree lol.
A friend of hers did tell us that we could’ve sold that particular spider for 25$ LOL they were some breed of jumping spider. I’ve held them before and they are actually fairly friendly but I wasn’t there to help and that’s what made it worse.
Omg! That's my so funny, but I really feel for your wife. I'm not that scared of spiders but I can understand her horror at home on her own with the three little new friends.
Btw it's a lovely Christmas tree,lively the shape and how you've done it up
Hahah ya it was unfortunate for sure but inside her castle which is our home she doesn’t want any attacks on it by the hordes of bugs. It was a beautiful tree for sure and one day we will have another one. She already ordered a fake tree so no trees will be inside the house again for a while lol
Lol I can understand you wife’s arachnophobia. I’ve not been to Australia, but aside spiders, I’ve heard Australia is home to all sorts of freaky scary and dangerous animals. Dangerous spiders with scary names there lol. She was probably scared the spider could be Australia-dangerous spider.
As for losing service in the store, you know the universe just fucks with you when you’re in emergencies or stuff like that. I always expect something to go wrong when I have an emergency or am in a hurry, and they always really do lol.
The tree looked beautiful with the decorations though. Shame you didn’t get to keep it for long. But like say, happy wife, happy life right:)
It was a type of jumping spider we’ve been told and we could have sold it for like 25$ lol but she wasn’t going to keep the thing so there’s no way we would’ve been able to sell it hahaha.
She was freaking out and couldn’t sleep the whole night, finally falling asleep at like 3 AM thinking spiders were going to attack my son and I. I slept like a baby hahaha I don’t mind spiders of this kind, it wasn’t one of the dangerous ones.
What? Sell the freaking spider for $25? Have you seen that “I don’t care a win is a win” TikTok sound? I feel like this situation right here would fit perfectly for the sound lol.
Now you just threw away an easy $25 catch you didn’t go through any hassle to get. Making $25 has never been easier.😂
And I knew for sure you slept like a baby. I saw you pick up a snapping turtle(doesn’t even matter that it was a baby turtle lol), so yeahhh a harmless spider could’t faze you. Lol.
oops, I was logged in to the wrong account :) my bad!
Oh poor wife, I'm very sorry, I did laugh reading this, a lot! But I can imagine if you're so afraid of them, even these small ones get to you. I personally remember having some spiders in the house a bit bigger and fatter, I was not really amused but not scared either, that is until one of them crawled right next to me over the cushion I had on the couch, with me on it! That was too close and it had to die lol. The creepy crawler was so fast and brrr I didn't fancy these bigger sized ones.
I would not really be amused in the house either but I think the cat should be able to take care of that, not sure yet though if this one is a hunter because he seems a bit lazy :)
I'm going to check if you bought another one soon, and please share these adventures :)