Decisions to abandon or rehabilitate are always informed by value judgements, not simply by the cost of time, money or effort required. Hence the importance of practices of maintenance and the corresponding need to complement the anthropological analysis of discard with repair studies. Repair has consequences for how we think of social relations by lending continuity to discontinuity, helping us to overcome the negative logic that carries the abandonment of things and to reconnecting personal biographies to public materiality. We can situate repair as part of the everyday micro-powers, those that contribute to create transcendental narratives of reconstitution after wrongdoing or abandonment. This discussion eventually reveals that brokenness is never final, indifferent, autonomous, impervious to change. Rather, it is an in-between condition, waiting for a new life, available for new relationships and reconstitutions.