Originally Posted by hockeymom
My sewing room is in my finished basement. In the past we have had a few mice. Lately, there is at least 1 dead mouse a week.(the smell is terrible) We have an exterminator come and set traps, but they are still coming in. I don't know where they are coming from. I am allergic to cats so that is not an option. I don't have the room to move the sewing room upstairs. I hope I don't have to give up sewing for the winter. Thanks for letting me vent.
I use peanut butter on the old fashioned little wooden spring traps. I have a pest service come in also with those little boxes -- but there are always some in the traps. If you can't stand dumping the dead mice -- just buy more traps. In a summer place closed all winter you learn to expect critters.
I store blankets and fabrics in wooden chests. -- have your DH build some out of plywood if he is handy
Also -- put poison bait outside your house -- lean a small board against the foundation so the rain and larger animals can't get at it and the mice can run in a nice darl "hallway"