Article: GARAGE SALE!

WALT and Norma Bell will be moving soon to the Big Island, but they don't plan on holding any garage sales to help clear their Niu Valley home.

"We're donating everything to the Angel Network (Charities)," Norma Bell said. "Charities are a great way to go. We feel good about it."

There's some irony in that because the Bells are inveterate garage sale shoppers, having picked up some treasures - Oriental baskets and Chinese serving dishes - and some practical items - "a brand new vacuum cleaner" - in their canvassing of carports.

Prices are generally so good, Walt, 68, a retired architect, and Norma, 69, a painter and housewife, can't even bring themselves to bargain.

"We can't do it because ...

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