DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a good relationship with my neighbors across the street -- we’re not friends, but we have a nice, friendly manner with each other.

Occasionally they ask me to bring their mail into the house when they are gone for longer periods of time -- and here comes the dilemma.

As a “thank you,” they always give us a bottle of wine. The bottles have no sleeves or any other identifying marks on them. We don’t drink wine. Never has anyone seen us drink it, because we don’t!

Yet, I have a cabinet full of unmarked bottles that I don’t know what to do with. After years of receiving bottle after bottle, I don’t know how I could let my neighbors know that we really don’t want them. I can’t even regift them to someone else, because they have no sleeves on them. What can I do?

GE

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