I had a medium garden spider in my back yard this summer and was thrilled! As long as I don't wake up to any kind of spider crawling on my face at three in the morning, or dropping from the ceiling directly into my adult beverage, they do so much good. Except the stick figure spiders. They could have a whole civilization of webs (with colonies) chilling out on your ceiling with no evidence of carnivorous activity. If they are sneaking into the cheese, then it's all out war!

Beautiful spiders, I still remember seeing my first one and my Uncle educating me about them

He'd be welcome in my home.

Spiders are our natural allies. They kill the bugs that actually cause us problems.

Occasionally, there are misunderstandings, like a couple of months ago when I walked through a web in the woods and the spider bit me, how can I blame her, I just destroyed her home and scared the shit out of her, and usually that's no big deal, just a glorified mosquito bite, but unfortunately, I was allergic to that particular spider and my lips swelled like crazy and my hands burned and a few days later I was covered in hives. Other than that, Spiders are awesome.

They are pretty creepy, but not if you don't look at them.