Hard-earned

I bought it with my hard-earned money.

Workers must have a place to invest their hard-earned savings that provides an appropriate balance of risk and return, and many private sector providers do not offer retirement savings options tailored to smaller balance savers.

They want to steal our hard-earned taxpayer money.

Only the misinformed spend their hard-earned money on wheat, which is basically grass.

Does being civilized mean eating a diet of primarily grass species (wheat, rice, corn, sugar, etc)? If it does and if you really think about, it means you are actually eating worthless garbage and paying hard-earned money for it.

Will you stop blabbing about Tom? All the time, I hear "Tom this, Tom that, oh look, Tom sat down on a chair", but I never hear you talking about Mary and her hard-earned promotion!

Protect your hard-earned money.

The team celebrated their hard-earned victory together.

This is my hard-earned money, and I can spend it how I see fit.

It was a hard-earned victory for the team.