The object repaired repeatedly has received many separate votes for remaining.

Every repair is a decision taken again. The chair that has been glued twice and re-covered once was, on three separate occasions, worth more effort than a replacement, and each of those judgements was made by somebody weighing cost against attachment in a particular year. The accumulation is what makes such things hard to throw out; you would be overruling several past people, including yourself. Mending is a quiet way of saying this stays.

Look at what you keep repairing and let that tell you what you value. Then consider mending one more thing rather than replacing it, and notice how the object changes.