I don't like spiders either. The problem: I don't want to kill those poor dudes, so I try to put them outside which can be tricky sometimes. I'm not afraid of them but I don't like them to walk on my arm or something.
My scariest experiences with spiders took place in Australia though. I remember finding one's hull which was apparently recently dropped on a cupboard at my exchange students home. Quite huge and hairy. Then found the real one. In my backpack, flat like a flounder between my notepad and the inside of the backpack. And although it was so flat, it still moved.
Then there was a medium sized totally orange one in the bathroom of the bungalow village we were at. Looked dangerous lol.
And then finally in the bungalow we lived, a funnel-web spider in a fissure of the doorframe. Huge and a serious danger.
After being in Australia I got a bit cured from being afraid of German spiders though^^