A feat of conservation:

The other week when I was pulling out my big room broom from the side of my closet in my cute little cottage apartment, I felt something snap, and I pulled the handle out, while the bottom of the broom stayed in the closet (a chair I had put in there by it must have accidentally wedged it in). But, luckily it was a plastic top-of-the-broomhead area with some holes in it, so I wound duct tape around through that and then around the base of the handle after I had inserted the handle back in, and now the broom is good enough to use again, though it wiggles a little bit more than it used to.