What Would You Do?

[mybackpages 0]

I wouldnt wash it. I was always taught spiders are a sign of a clean house.

[ceriserose 1]

I wouldnt wash it. I was always taught spiders are a sign of a clean house.

heh I'm going to use that. People who haven't been here might believe it. I'm sooo not a housekeeper.

To answer the earlier question, I re-washed it. I'm a heebie jeebie spider type. I know it was pretty silly. Hubby just goes along with it.

As for bugs etc., I stopped eating Chips Ahoys cookies for months at age 8 when my Dad informed me there were bug pieces that could have been ground up in the flour. Apparently at 8, I thought that it was *only* Chips Ahoy so the other cookies were 'safe'.

I'm off to work! Y'all have fun!

[Tim and Bethanie 1]

I'd probably wipe it with a damp paper towel, but not wash it again properly. (Aah, spiders no doubt walk all over that stuff when we're not looking anyway!)

And I'm female.

Same here. No telling what walks across pans and tableware when you aren't looking. I sure wouldn't wash things I use on a daily basis before using them again. I do however wash larger pots or special dishes that have been sitting in a cupboard for awhile.

[Karen_L 1]

I probably wouldn't rewash it, to be honest. I might wipe it with some of that Clorox anywhere spray - I love that stuff!

Yeah, neither would I. I might give it a quick rinse though.

[ya falaha! 0]

Female-Rinse and dry pan. No soap.

[eclowjpd 0]

Common sense would say to take the 20 seconds needed to wash out any unseen animal biology, bacteria etc.

[ninamyers 0]

I wouldn't do anything with it, I'd ask Ed to sort it out! And I would never be able to look in a pan again, just in case there was a spider in it. This thread has given me goosebumps...

[almaty 19]

male...and no..hell, i would never have washed it in the 1st place and if i saw a spider in it, i figure at least he got a few of the roaches that are usual there....

now, sanita is a clean addict and would scrub it and make me spray the houses for spiders..

[Mags 112]

I'm female and wouldn't do a damn thing to the pan. It's a spider for chrissakes. It isn't like a dog has taken a ####### in it. And spider #######? Sure we have eaten loads of it in our time. It REALLY isn't going to do us any harm.

Obsessive sterilising of house hold objects is what's making humans less resilient to bacteria.

There was an investigation a few years back in the UK regarding leukemia rates in young children. The rates for well off parents with sterilised homes was almost double than those whose children grew up in dirtier homes. There is a direct risk between excessive cleaning (to the point of anti bac on everything, not just general tidyness) and childhood leukemias.

Excessive cleaning with antibacterial agents reduces the effectiveness of our immune systems. Think about that when you feel the need to wash a pan just because a spider was in it.....

Edited December 12, 2006 by mags

[Mary Lou 681]

I'd wash it

[brnidokiegurl 0]

wash it and would usually wipe off pans that had been in cabinet setting before using again anyway but who knows maybe spider had walked across the plates while we slept! Its kinda like the restaurant thing who knows what goes on behind the scenes

[JenT 0]

I'm more particular about my kitchen and food preparation than I am with anything else in the house. So a) I wouldn't have left the pan out and B) if I had, I would have washed it after removing the spider. I'm not bothered by insects, rodents, or reptiles... I prefer not to have them in my house, though.

What you don't know doesn't hurt you, though, right??

Jen

[sophyie 0]

No way I'd wash it.

What makes you think spiders don't go into kitchen cabinets?

[mawilson 2,133]

I'd definitely wash it. It's purely psychological - no real or objective basis.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Male and yes I'd wash it.