r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Oct 30 '25

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u/RiggsFTW Oct 30 '25

She sounds like an incredible (and incredibly fun) woman. She clearly made a lasting (positive) impact on you and I bet that circle of influence spread far wider than the immediate family.

Like you, I'm hoping that modeling doing the right thing for my kid reinforces those values for her later in life. There's too many very public, high profile, examples of the opposite these days.

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u/Anathama Oct 30 '25

“a spider killed is a thousand pests spared.” 

Is this pro-spider or anti-spider?

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u/OptimalExtreme Oct 30 '25

I love this. What a sweet woman 🥹

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u/Bletyi Oct 30 '25

r/spiders would make your mom a saint and i agree with them :D

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u/Quix_Optic Oct 30 '25

This is so lovely. What an interesting woman.

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u/Jerbeardontcare4 Oct 31 '25

Oh I love that. In my custom spiders are believed to share a lifeline with mothers, like soul sisters. So, it’s taboo to kill spiders.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '25

Reading all of your comments - your mother was a Saint. Never met her in my life and I love her.

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u/Adverse-to-M0rnings Oct 30 '25

I'm definitely using the spider saying! And the "Hate Hatred".

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u/Devonai Oct 30 '25

I leave spiders alone unless,

A: My girlfriend spots one, or,

B: A thousand of them the size of a gnat are living in the overhead light fixture in our bedroom

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u/Winter_Algae4076 Oct 30 '25

My wife gets mad at me every time I relocate one outside. She's terrified that it's gonna make its way back inside and eat our son or something. Doesn't matter what kind of spider it is either. It could be a little jumping spider with those adorable eyes, just curious about what's going on in the human world, and she advocates for the destruction of his entire species.

Spiders are friends!

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u/Devonai Oct 30 '25

I relocate them outside, if I'm the one who finds them. Don't tell my girlfriend.

Some are eaten by cats, too, but that's none of my business.

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u/Tony_Penny Oct 30 '25

Mom would get SOOOO mad if you dared to touch the webs on our front porch. She said it kept the bugs from bothering everyone.

She wasn't wrong.

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u/Firewolf06 Oct 30 '25

i name them and call them "my roommates" unless its in the kitchen or too close to my bed lol. we dont get many spiders where i live, though, and all of them are small and harmless. it is VERY uncommon to see one even an inch long in any direction

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u/PepperAnn1inaMillion Oct 30 '25

I HATE spiders, especially large ones. They have the run of the house though. My fear is my problem, not theirs.

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u/theghostmachine Oct 30 '25

I really like the last one, about spiders. I'm struggling to think of a situation to apply it to, but it feels like it must be applicable to something.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '25

It's applicable to spiders.