bare necessity

Their children were sent out to work to help pay for the bare necessities.

As they had brought only the bare necessities, this took little time.

They only supply me with the bare necessities, even for their own people.

Government provides you just enough cash for the bare necessities.

With job loss and ever increasing costs of the bare necessities what can anyone expect.

The late Victorian period saw the return of the wood floor as a popular choice rather than a bare necessity.

The remaining money is rarely enough to pay for the bare necessities.

But he'd wanted to travel light and had brought only the barest necessities.

She would take the bare necessities and go to Molly's apartment for now.

Here nothing and nobody could exist without aid for the bare necessities of life.