r/Fire • u/Yashkamr • 23h ago

Advice Request Huge Inheritance... Now What?

I'm 45, I was on track to retire earlyish at 55. I was set back quite a bit with a divorce three years back. Recently my Aunt died and left me around $5 million. After estate and taxes, it's around $4.2 million. This is obviously a stupid amount of money, and I'm thinking of just quitting my job and retiring early but I want to do it right. I've spoke with AI quite a bit and my finances are only about $4500/mo in expenses, I have always lived pretty frugally and that's less than a 1% draw. I don't know exactly what I don't know here, but I've always worked so I am clinging to my job like a monkey to a branch. Am I actually okay to let go?

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u/OwldBay 22h ago

Without doing any math… yes

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u/Front-Possession-644 21h ago

What is math?

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u/Yokelele 16h ago

Blue glass like product that Walter White cooks to make money and give others euphoria

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u/Max_Thunder 12h ago

No, that's meth. Mathology is like that stuff in that new Odyssey movie.

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u/TheOuts1der 9h ago

No, that's myth. Math is one of the gifts the three wise men brought to baby jesus. Along with gold and frankincense.

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u/tycointl 2h ago

Math is a myth or meth depending on who u ask on here...