what should you do for spiders?

I have a lot of spiders building nests around my house. Daily I walk through them and end up with a silken "hair net" on my face and head. I apologize profusely to the spiders whose home I have just destroyed, but then I explain to them that I need to be able to walk out my door, out of my garage, through my back yard gate in order to function. They seem to be oblivious to my needs and continue to rebuild their webs right where I just wreaked havoc with them. Perhaps I have the dumb spiders in my yard, the ones who continue to make mistake after mistake and never learn. Perhaps I have the stubborn spiders. They won't give an inch. They are going to stand their territory. They are going to prove me the weaker one--I don't know about weaker, but I'm definitely the one sporting the most silken threads on my person. They will continue to build webs where I have ingress and egress and believe I will just give up and will remain secluded in my home until I expire and then they will cover my entire abode with webs! My house will look like a big mohair yarn ball with creepy crawly things in and around it. Or I could just take my broom and beat the webs and the haughty spiders to a hairy, mashed pulp and be done with it. But I worry that other spiders will hear about what I've done and I will find a convention of protesting spideys on my porch one morning or they will sneak into my bedroom at night and turn me into Gulliver. I'll wake up to find myself tethered to the bed, unable to move. I'll bet that will be a first for an excuse for calling in "sick"! Meanwhile, I will continue to debate with myself about what the proper course of attack should be. My apologies to Charlotte and her web and all her cousins...