Broken Starbucks Mug

Christmas 2010 was spent flying to Northern Ireland for my cousin's wedding. When I go on vacation, I buy a Starbucks mug. 2010 was no different. Unfortunately about two years after buying it, the handle broke. Not wanting to throw it away, I decided to repurpose the mug as a pencil holder.

This is an unusual thing because when something breaks most of the time, I throw the thing away.

This is from BlogHer writing lab prompt for May 5, 2016. Do you ever keep old, broken items? Why? Take a photo of one.