As any household should be! I just introduced my partner to them this year — her first time playing with Lego in almost 40 years of life, and she loves them now!
Absolutely. So far all my jobs have had some balance of those. They just often tend to lean more “community” than “wealth”, but I’m not exactly living in poverty either. Between my partner and myself, as two DINKers, I’d say we live a pretty good life! But neither of us have a realistic retirement plan, something that I’ve only recently started to remedy, with my first 401k and some money in a CD (certificate of deposit) while I learn about other investment vehicles, largely due to the help of this board (including many of your posts in the other threads).
In short, because my career & life trajectory was not very traditional. I was a high school dropout (but also eventual college grad), and I went from homeless to minimum wage to earning six figures in a little under a decade, really more due to luck and connections than anything I did. Along the way, nobody ever taught me basic household finance or anything about investment or retirement, so I had to start learning about them only very recently, mostly on my own, and only once I finally achieved some bare semblance of career and life stability… right in time for the country to implode, go figure.
It’s a dream, for sure, and something I’d love to work towards and have started saving for. Just not at the expense of the present (i.e. not FIRE or anything like it) because, frankly, I don’t know if there will be much of a future worth living in…
Heh, that’s absolutely fair criticism, and indeed sounds very much like my dad 
My situation isn’t THAT bad, thankfully. I’ve done a few things I’m quite proud of, but nothing notable enough to share, and certainly nothing that my dad would’ve been proud of.
It all ultimately comes down to daddy and mommy issues, doesn’t it? Lol.
You’d think, right? Except my dad grew up in a middle-class merchant family while my mother was a literal farmer peasant (before bootstrapping her way into early IT). Yet it was her that had by far the more balanced life, the more fulfilling family life and relationships, outside hobbies, etc. — all while earning significantly more than my father, in a time and place where women were severely disadvantaged. I still don’t know what she ever saw in my dad…
My partner is like me — we’re both more just touch-feely, happy-go-lucky types who only very reluctantly and half-assedly participate in the vision of modern, responsible adulthood. We’re better off than some of our peers, worse off than others. Life isn’t perfect, but it’s quite good, and we’re thankful for what we have while also trying to be better planners about the future.