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Downsized Retirement LifestylesWhen empty nesters think about changing their retirement lifestyle, they usually consider downsizing to a place with fewer rooms to heat and cool, less grass to cut.But some retired and semiretired boomers have changed their lifestyle to the extreme, ditching their fixed residences for homes on wheels, going off the grid and finding other ways to live smaller.They're the kind of people Lloyd Kahn, editor-in-chief of Shelter Publications, features in his book, "Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter," such as the elderly man who fashioned himself a home out of a 120-square-foot garden shed, or the 70-something woman who lived in a converted school bus.Kahn says the current tiny-homes movement is a bit of a throwback to the late '60s and early '70s."It's an idea that's been around, but all of a sudden a lot of people are thinking in terms of getting smaller rather than larger," says Kahn.This trend doesn't apply to everyone, of course. But Bankrate found four examples ...

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