We had a lot of spiders show up in the house I grew up in, in the Missouri Ozarks. I think partly cause we had a cellar that was built under the house and I think they came up through the vents or something. Also we had no air conditioning and had the windows open with box fans in the summer. Though there were screens in place, I still think they got in that way sometimes through a hole or gap or something.

Anyway, as long as they weren't brown recluses, we generally left them alone or tried to catch in a jar to put outside. This is NOT to say I wasn't nervous of them being in my clothes or shoes, I was because it is startling and because brown recluses were very common there too.

However, I remember leaving the little jumping spiders in the widowsills because they always caught flies that buzzed around in the windows

Perhaps that is one reason I don't have an extreme aversion or fear of spiders the way so many people do, cause I had so much exposure to them. But also Mom was very nature oriented and we'd always watch nature shows including the ones on spiders. The more you learn about something, the less it tends to frighten you at some point