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By JUDY STARK
Published March 11, 2006

A faucet to warm up to

Ever wished you had a hot-water faucet outside . . . for washing the dog, scrubbing the grill or filling the baby's pool with warm water? Wish no more. Moen has just introduced a single-handle hot-cold outdoor faucet. It operates like a shower valve so you can get just the mix you want. The faucet will be available in May, priced between $64 and $68, depending on size.

Storage unit strategies

This is the weekend you're really, really going to clean out the garage and take some of that seldom-used stuff you can't part with to a self-storage unit. Suggestion: Don't wait until 5 p.m. to start looking for that storage unit or assume that there will be plenty of vacant units at that place you drive by all the time. Spring is a busy storage season, and storage centers quickly sell out of popular-size units, say the folks at Storage-Mart, which operates these centers. Once you've got the unit, plan how you'll use it. Place items you won't need for months or years toward the back. Things you'll need sooner should be in the middle or front.

Odd highways to fame

Psycho Path in Traverse City, Mich., took first place in a poll of the nation's weirdest street names sponsored by Mitsubishi Motors that was conducted at www.thecarconnection.com. Other wacky winners of names for the streets where you don't want to live: Divorce Court in Heather Highlands, Pa.; Farfrompoopen Road in Tennessee it leads to Constipation Ridge; the intersection of Lonesome and Hardup in Albany, Ga.; the intersection of Clinton and Fidelity in Houston; and Bucket of Blood Street in Holbrook, Ariz.

- Compiled from staff and wire reports by Homes editor JUDY STARK

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