We leave non-perishables in during the season but at the end of fall, we remove everything, clean really well and then set up the mice defense system which includes cotton soaked with peppermint oil hanging around in tea balls, mouse poison stations and some of those self contained plastic mouse traps. We also keep it plugged into AC and put one of those sonic rodent deterrent noise maker thingys in there. We had no mice last year. Honestly though, our neighbors have a new "mamma cat" that has been keeping the rodent population to almost nothing....haven't seen a chipmunk all spring and the squirrels have disappeared so I'm attributing most of our "no mice" situation to her and her fantastic hunting skills, discounting all of our voodoo like efforts to warn them off ;-)
Phil
PS- Mice will make nests from things like towels, paper towels, napkins, drier sheets so get all of that out there.
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