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There's absolutely no advantage to glue traps but no point to using any traps at all if you haven't plugged entry points. Lots of people here recommend steel wool but mice were shoving aside the steel wool in my apartment and frolicking freely before the super came in and plugged up everything with a sticky black caulking. You need to be sure to get behind everything: stove, fridge, cabinets; take off your radiator covers and seal up around the pipes; look for any holes around baseboards and if there's a space between your threshold and front door, get yourself a metal door sweeper.

Happy to report I am now mice-free.

And one final (gross) point: Mice pee and poo everywhere they go. If you're just picking up the little poos they're leaving behind, you're not really cleaning. Wherever you see any droppings, you should be swabbing down the entire area before you even think about preparing food there.

Unless you like mice leavings. In which case, enjoy.