ShredRite Facebook ad: “Old Quran, kitab and madrasah book collection in Singapore”

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The bag was still beside my in-laws' cupboard. It had been there the last three times we'd visited. My father-in-law saw me looking. “Those are the books I told you about.” I remembered. I had also told him, more than once, that I would help find somewhere for them to go. The first time, I had offered to take the bag home. We had come by train that day. He told me there was no need to carry it all the way back. “Next time you drive.” The next time we drove, he asked whether I had found somewhere for the books. I hadn't. He looked at me reaching for the handles. “No need to take them just to keep at your house.” So the bag stayed there. By then, I had started noticing it before I took my shoes off. My in-laws had already done the part that required them. They had opened the cupboards and checked the books together. They had chosen the Qurans and kitab they still used. A few useful copies had gone to a relative. In the bag were the damaged materials they were ready to dispose of. Worn books. Loose religious pages. Covers that no longer held their contents together. My mother-in-law had kept them gathered neatly so they wouldn't get mixed up with anything else. They weren't waiting for somebody to tell them what to keep. They were waiting for the collection to be arranged. That afternoon, while my wife made tea, I sat beside my father-in-law and asked him to show me what was in the bag. He lifted out a kitab and supported the loose section with his hand. “This one, the pages keep coming out.” I looked at the cover. Then at the materials underneath. I understood why they had kept everything together. He told me which copies were already back on the shelf. My mother-in-law came over and corrected him about one he thought had gone to Kakak. “That one she didn't take. It's still upstairs in the cupboard.” They knew their books. What none of us had settled was what to do with this bag. I had been thinking about the task as a trip I needed to make. Take the books. Put them in the car. Bring them somewhere. But every time I tried to plan it, I reached the same missing detail. Where? I didn't want to arrive somewhere with religious materials without checking whether they could be accepted or what would happen to them. And taking the bag to my own home would only give us another address to discuss. I took out my phone. This time, I stayed beside him while I searched for a collection service for old Qurans and religious books in Singapore. He asked if I wanted to eat first. “In a minute, Pa. Let me finish checking.” My wife brought the tea over and sat with us. We looked through the service details on ShredRite's website. They collected Qurans, kitab and madrasah books from the doorstep. I read that line aloud. “They can come here.” He pointed towards the door. “Up here?” “Yes. To your doorstep.” That was the first part of the task I could cross off. We didn't need to plan a trip for him to carry the books downstairs. I didn't need to move them into my storeroom while I kept searching. My mother-in-law wanted to know what happened after collection. The team would weigh the materials in front of them at the door, then transport them to their facility for P-5 micro-shredding. The shredded material would be sent for recycling. We read the process together. “So they don't shred them here?” my father-in-law asked. “The shredding happens at their facility, after they collect.” He nodded and went back to the part about weighing. We also checked the charges: S$5.50/kg for books, plus the booking fee. One of the mosque referral codes could reduce the usual S$20 fee to S$10. My wife asked if we could make the arrangements for them. That was what I wanted to do. I sent a collection request through WhatsApp, explained that I was booking for my in-laws and gave their collection address. I also said I would cover the cost. My father-in-law started to object to that part. I told him I wanted to take care of it. He had already sorted the books. We could handle the booking and the cost. We checked the confirmed collection details with both of them so they knew what had been arranged. My mother-in-law wrote the details on the calendar behind the kitchen door. The bag stayed beside the cupboard. But now, when we looked at it, there was something definite to say. That evening, my wife asked me whether I needed to bring anything over for the collection. I thought about it. “No. They've got the materials ready. We've made the arrangements.” We checked that they had the details again before collection day. My father-in-law was home when the team arrived. The materials were weighed in front of him at his doorstep, then collected. He called afterwards. “All done.” I asked whether everything in the bag had been collected. “Yes. Settled.” A moment later, he sent a photograph. It was the corner beside the cupboard. His slippers were there. The bag was gone. I showed my wife. She called her mother, and within a few minutes they were discussing what we should bring over for dinner on Sunday. On our next visit, I glanced at the cupboard out of habit. My father-in-law caught me looking. “No more bag,” he said. I laughed and took my shoes off. We sat down for tea. For the first time in several visits, I didn't have to promise that I would sort out the books next time. If your in-laws have already set aside old religious materials for disposal, you can arrange the next step without moving everything to your own home. ShredRite collects from doorsteps across Singapore, weighs the materials in front of the customer and takes them to its facility for micro-shredding and recycling. Books cost S$5.50/kg. Use either ALEEM10 for Masjid Abdul Aleem Siddique or KHALID10 for Masjid Khalid to reduce the usual S$20 booking fee to S$10. The weight rate is unchanged, and the discounts do not combine. View the service details on our website, then send a collection request through WhatsApp for confirmation. Let us know you are booking for your in-laws and would like to cover the cost.

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Old Quran, kitab and madrasah book collection in Singapore

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