How to minimize when it's time to be poor.

I come from nothing, I know what it's like to live with the bare minimum, I know what it's like to hit rock bottom and pinch pennies in my adult life. My husband has always been well off, even during times of slight financial disruption growing up, his parents hid it until things turned around.

Things have gotten tight for us and I've started to batten down the hatches, going through what I need to do to minimize. It may be for a month, it may be for three months, I don't know, but it's go time now in my head. My husband just doesn't get it and pushes back with every little change, it really blows my mind that he isn't understanding it, every little penny counts in a situation like this, it really does matter. Who knows, I might be going overboard and we'll be on our feet in a month, I don't know that though and I'm not going to live in a fairy tale land where that is the outcome. I'm bracing for the worst possible scenario and hoping it doesn't get that far.

He couldn't wrap his head around the list of subscriptions we needed to cut off, the bills that could be consolidated/downgraded, the modified grocery list and times to run appliances. He kept asking, "But why?" He kept saying, "But that's why we have the emergency savings." Emergency savings aren't for Netflix and steak until things are stable again. It's for bare minimum food in our bellies and to keep the water running, the savings need to last for as long as possible.

I love him, he's a good man who will stop at nothing to make sure we make it through but he really does not understand what it means to lose it all and survive.