Absolutely don't give up, just don't take it as a great failure if your plant doesn't look great all of the time. If you want to give it a little fertilizer, that's fine. I'm sure I have before at various times over the years, but only occasionally/sporadically while outside, maybe 3 times in a summer, maybe not at all for a few years. AFAIK, I've never killed any plant by not fertilizing it, but there's a long list of plants no longer alive that seemed to croak from getting too much.

Major cause of plant failure: too much fert/too much water.

What Lin said! My mom's spider plant is about 25 years old and that thing is so rootbound that when she waters it, it just sloshes right out of the planter. That's why she keeps it over the kitchen sink. That thing produces babies by the hundreds!

Thank you guys!!! I will try and root bound my plant hehe That seems to be the answer to my baby spiders dying.....Im not sure maybe I should plant it in a littler pot? I think for now I will just let it grow and see what happens. Since it is warmer out now I might put them outside and see how they do. Thank you for all the great advice. I will hold off on the fertilizer for now and see how they do.