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

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“I'll book it, Mak. And I'll cover the cost.” My mother-in-law looked up from the books. “You've already helped me sort.” “I know.” She turned to my husband, who was standing behind us with a tea towel over his shoulder. He smiled. “She's already decided.” I hadn't planned to say it. Two Sundays earlier, we had gone over for lunch. As usual, there was more food than the four of us could finish, and she had already put containers on the kitchen counter for us to take home. After we ate, she asked my husband to help bring a box out of the bedroom. Inside were Qurans, kitab and religious books she had been meaning to sort. She had mentioned them a few times before. Once while looking for something in the cupboard. Once when we brought over a storage container she had asked for. Once, halfway through a conversation about something else, when she said she still needed to find out what to do with the damaged copies. That morning, she had decided to open the box. I sat beside her on the living-room floor. My husband brought the other books out, then went back to help with the dishes. She picked up a kitab and opened it near the middle. A folded note slipped onto her lap. She read it, smiled and put it into a book she had set beside her. “This one I still want.” “Then we'll keep it.” She showed me a few pages and told me about the class where she had used it. I had seen that book on her shelf for years. I had never asked her about it. There were other books she could name before opening the cover. A few she wanted to look through before deciding. A Quran she still used went straight back on the shelf. We set aside useful copies she wanted to offer to relatives. The damaged materials made a smaller pile beside us. There were loose pages inside a worn cover, booklets coming apart at the staples and religious notes she had gathered together because she didn't know where else to put them. She wasn't ready to hand over the whole box to somebody else. She wanted to know which books were going where. By the time we finished checking, the afternoon had nearly gone. She looked at the damaged pile. “These, I still need to settle.” My husband offered to bring them home with us. “Then where will you put them?” she asked. We looked at each other. Our own storeroom had a shelf we kept saying we would clear. We could carry the books away that day. We couldn't yet tell her what would happen after that. So we put them together and left them beside her cupboard. I said I would find out. That evening, I searched for a service in Singapore that collected old Qurans, kitab and madrasah books. I opened pages, read the details and saved things to check again. During the week, work got busy and the tabs stayed open on my phone. When we visited again, the materials were still beside the cupboard. She didn't ask whether I had forgotten. She asked whether we wanted tea. After lunch, I sat down with my phone and finished what I had started. That was when I read through ShredRite's collection page. They collected from the doorstep. The materials would be weighed in front of the customer, then taken to their facility for P-5 micro-shredding and recycling. I brought the page over to her. “They can collect the books here, Mak.” She leaned closer. “What happens after they take them?” We read that part together. The shredding would happen at their facility after collection. She could see the materials being weighed at her own doorstep before they left. Then we checked the price. Books were S$5.50/kg, plus a booking fee. Using one of the mosque referral codes would reduce the usual S$20 booking fee to S$10. “I can pay,” she said. “I know, Mak. Let me do this one.” She wasn't asking us for money. We hadn't come because she couldn't manage her own things. But she had already spent the afternoon choosing the books she wanted to keep and checking the materials she was ready to dispose of. I could make the arrangements. I could cover this cost. It was something I could finish for her. That was when she looked at my husband with his tea towel, and he told her I had already decided. I sent the collection request through WhatsApp for confirmation. I explained that I was arranging it for my in-laws and wanted to cover the cost. Once the details were confirmed, we went through them together. She put the collection details on the fridge, under the magnet holding our wedding photo. Before collection day, she checked the materials once more. The books she wanted were safely on her shelf. The useful copies for relatives were in a different bag. I was there when the materials were weighed at her doorstep. After the team took them away, we went back into the living room. She looked at the space beside the cupboard. “Finished already.” “Yes, Mak.” Then she went into the kitchen. A few minutes later, she came back with two containers. “Bring home. Lunch for tomorrow.” I laughed. “Mak, you didn't have to.” She pressed the lids down and put them in a bag. “I know.” On the way home, my husband held the food while I drove. We talked about what we would have for lunch the next day. Then he said his mother had been meaning to settle those books for a long time. I was glad I had gone beyond saying I would help. If your in-laws have old religious materials they are ready to dispose of, arranging and paying for their collection can be a practical way to care for them. Let them choose what stays. Useful books can be kept or passed on where someone wants them. ShredRite collects from doorsteps across Singapore. 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 stays unchanged, and the discounts do not combine. View the service details on our website, then send your collection request through WhatsApp for confirmation. Tell us you are booking for your in-laws and would like to cover the cost.

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