I am another one whose taste has not changed, at all. I have spent the past few days since this query was put up wondering if I was being honest with myself. Surely something has changed over the years, but it hasn't. My horizons may have broadened, I may have seen more things, but the style I like is capacious and has always accommodated that kind of eclecticism. I have not pared down my aesthetic as many have. I was brought up in a family with very strict feelings about overcrowding surfaces and the need for space around beloved objects- my grandmother was more sparse than my mother, but neither could abide jumbles of things. I still have the art I bought as a young teenager at small exhibit at Rizzoli in NYC. I was very proud of my purchase. I love him as much now as I did then, maybe more for all the time he and I (it's a small portrait) have spent together. There are fashion items that enter my house and then leave eventually, I suppose. I had some very pastel/Miami Vice colored cereal bowls from Williams-Sonoma in grad school. I would not have those today- they are very late 80s early 90s and not in a Memphis kind of way. I could imagine picking something like those up again, but according to today's whims, like the ubiquitous bamboo handled cutlery I see on everyone's IG (turns out that flatware costs way more than I would spend on a fashion item, for me, but if it were cheaper, I might have gotten some.)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><md>Bumping 'cause no one's responded & I'm still curious!

As with any study like this, what isn't clear is causation. Are you unable to balance as part of a syndrome with other chronic illness? Is it a symptom of those living less-healthy lifestyles including a lack of exercise? Is the instability due to treatments for other chronic illnesses such as side effects from medicine or immobility due to chronic pain? Is it a sign of brain health? Overall levels of strength including legs and ankles and feet? Or is it the lack of balance that that leads to earlier death including more frequent falls? The study suggests that instability increases with age. To the extent that ill-health speeds up metabolic aging, is the loss of balance a symptom of that? According to the study: "In general, those who failed the test had poorer health: a higher proportion were obese, and/or had heart disease, high blood pressure, and unhealthy blood fat profiles. And type 2 diabetes was 3 times as common in this group: 38% vs around 13%. "

I have had a dryer for at least 50 years and I never use it if I can hang clothes out on two long lines in my backyard. I hate clothes done in the dyer. When I take my sheets off the line and put them on my bed immediately , they smell wonderful and are smooth and wrinkle free. Most particularly I hate towels in the dryer. I don't want fluffy towels, I want absorbant rougher ones which are the ones line dried. Unfortunately this is one of the days that I had to use the dryer since it rained all day. We're in a bad drought so it doesn't happen often. I dried everything but my bath towel which I hung over the heat vent. When I was first married I didn't own a dryer and hung diapers on the line all winter every day and they were stiff as boards when I brought them in. I don't do it to save energy. I like the clothes line dried and they wear much better and last longer. Call me a Luddite.