Some Additional Suggestions:

• Put oil of pennyroyal on a cotton ball or scrap of cloth and place where you see spiders. (Use this with caution it is said that pennyroyal can be harmful to humans and pets. Personally I've never had a problem with it and actually love the smell.)
• Borax in shallow lids or just sprinkle on the floor under couches or beds or wherever the problem area is.
• Baking soda... same as borax.
• Kerosene. Use it on window screens and sills as well as doorways. (Kerosene is flammable until it evaporates, so keep it away from flame or heat.)
• Eucalyptus leaves in closets, drawers and under large pieces of furniture
• Use osage orange (also called hedgeballs or mock oranges).
• Chestnuts Proved Effective: Put chestnuts around the exterior walls of every room in the house as well as on all the windowsills.
• A Good Use for Tobacco:
  1) Get a package of pipe or chewing tobacco, soak it in a gallon of boiling water until it cools. Strain the liquid into a clean container. Put a cup of tobacco juice and 1/2 cup lemon dish soap into a hose-end sprayer and spray. This works on all kinds of bugs.
  2) Put a package of chewing tobacco in a quart jar of water, and let the jar sit out in the hot sun for a day so that the tobacco has a chance to steep slowly. Then strain the mixture into a sprayer. This mixture is poisonous and can actually be absorbed by the skin, so be careful. It can also be absorbed by the leaves of plants, so don't use it on food crops.
• Spiders and Lemons: I don't know if this is true or not but someone said that spiders have their taste buds on the tips of their legs and that they hate the taste of lemon pledge. Dust your windowsills and doorframes with lemon pledge, both inside and out, and any areas where they accumulate.

• My Story Involving Spiders:
  It is said that Brown Recluse spiders are known for their reclusive nature and avoid humans. There are however times that they do bit people. I know this is a fact because I was bitten not once but numerous times. Although about 50% of Brown Recluse spider bits are "dry" - that means no venom is injected and nothing happens to the bit victim. I wasn't so lucky! In my case for the first 24 hours I thought fleas had bitten me on my chest. There were 5 or 6 tiny bumps that itched like crazy. Being horrified of the thought of having my chest scared up I did everything under the sun to avoid scratching. It was all to no avail though, I didn't scratch but the small spots continued to itch.
  By the second day the pinhead-sized bumps turned into nickel sized open sores, I had NOT scratched them once. By the 4th day they were quarter sized and an area about the size of a grown person's hand (fingers extended) was raw flesh. The itching continued.
  It was about this time that I was talking to a friend on the phone. After a short conversation I told her I was going to have to get off the phone and find something to put on my chest because the itching was unbearable. She asked me what was wrong and I told her. I'd never heard this friend "panic" but I could hear it in her voice as she ordered me to get to the hospital "right now".
  Well, I really didn't want to make the trip to the hospital for several reasons. I hate hospitals, I didn't have insurance, and I really didn't feel like looking like an idiot going to the emergency room for a couple little flea bits. So to delay a bit I called my Mom instead. Mom mind you is a registered nurse so figured she would know what to do for this annoying itching. When I described the situation to Mom there was silence on the other end of the phone for what seemed forever.
  When she did finally speak I could tell she was crying but being typical "MOM" she attempted to put up a brave front for me. In a shaky voice she said, "Well Faith I've always known you were strong but until now I never knew just how strong." At first she had me totally confused but eventually she went on to explain that people have died within 48 hours of being bitten, that the poison actually destroys tissue. With the bites being on my chest it was a miracle that my heart and lungs weren't effected.
  Looking back now I can only believe that God just wasn't ready to take me home yet! Since that time I have paid a lot closer attention to His voice and what plans He might have for me. Learning from others and being thankful for the opportunity.
  
• Information on Brown Recluse Spiders:
  Most Common Situations for Bites-
  1. Putting on cloths that were left on the floor and the spider crawled in
  2. Picking up something without looking that is in a secluded or rarely visited spot.
  3. Rolling over in bed on a spider that climbed up bedding that was touching the floor.
• Indications of Bite:
  ¨ 1st 24 hours the bite appears no worse than a flea or mosquito bite.
  ¨ Begins to blister in the center.
  ¨ Blister breaks open leaving an open, oozing ulceration (24-36 hours).
  ¨ Reactions include severe headaches, nausea, vomiting, soreness, and "flu-like" symptoms.
  ¨ In extreme cases: skin grafts, amputation, and possibility of bone marrow failure may occur.