make ends meet

What would you do with your money if you were rolling it?

They must be rolling in it. Have you seen that beautiful house they live in?

 What would you try to do without if you were finding it difficult to make ends meet?

make ends meet
生活の収支を合わせる、収入の範囲内でやりくりする［やっていく］

Our children don't know how hard it is to make （both） ends meet. 
うちの子どもは、生活の収支を合わせるのがいかに大変か分かっていない。

Can you remember a time when you scraped together enough money to buy something?

scrape together
〔苦労して金や人などを〕かき集める

However long and however hard we worked to scrape together a living, we would always be poor.
どうにか暮らしていくために、どんなに長く、どんなに一生懸命働こうとも、私たちは常に貧しいままであった。