Adventures in Spring Cleaning

I have a list of things I would like to get done before I get too big and it gets too hot. One of them was to organize baby clothes into tubs, which I did more than a month ago. The only problem was that when I was finished, I didn't want to lug the darn things downstairs. Today I decided I needed to organize the basement so I could: 1) get all of the baby stuff out of the basement that I will need for Dannika, and 2) make room for the tubs of baby clothes. I got the left side organized and took down the tubs, so I was feeling pretty good. I got to some of the Bairds' toys and sports stuff, so I started organizing/moving it into a corner. I found another tub that I had put stuff in and found more clothes that would fit Kaleb right now and found the 2T coat I had been looking for all winter. (Now that he won't fit into it anymore.) Go figure.
I think cleaning and organizing that basement room is needed at least once a year (if not more) because it was starting to get stinky. I think I found the source of the stink and that's why I'm only half way done and it will stay that way until Danny gets home. First of all, we had a box of red potatoes that I forgot about, so they have sprouted like crazy and don't smell the greatest, but that was only part of the smell. When I got to the back of the room and started moving more boxes around, I found a dead mouse. I moved one more box and found a huge hobo on the wall. I am TERRIFIED of spiders, so I just stood there for a minute and then had to abandon my cleaning mission and come upstairs. I got to thinking...if hobos can hurt a human, they could easily kill a mouse, right? Would that be something a spider would do? I'm not really sure what happened, but I know there were no traps and we don't put poison out for the mice because we don't want to poison our cats. Hmmm.