I spread them all out on the balcony for an afternoon when we got them, and I did a thing I read about where you're supposed to seal them up in a bag with some alcohol and let the alcohol evaporate and kill everything real good, but I don't know how well that worked.

It's a real struggle for me; as a neat freak I hate having musty, funky, possibly moldy stuff in the house, but as a junkoholic I can't avoid musty, funky, possibly moldy stuff. Full of contradictions.