Yet the town of Locke has today become a "historic relic," its progeny "propelled upwards by their parents' hard-earned savings and the Chinese work ethic."

In October 1929 the stock market crashed and Carmichael's hard-earned savings declined substantially.

The loss of hard-earned savings is a pain no one wants to endure.

Not as long as most of her hard-earned savings, accumulated by scrimping for five long years, were tied up in the house.

Many investors, particularly those who have retired, need to use their hard-earned savings to deliver an income to supplement their pension.

Prue, when a working girl spends her hard-earned savings on time travel, she has a right to expect something besides politics.

They worried about once-despised concepts like property values now that their hard-earned savings were tied up in homes.

You really need to get a job, however menial, in the business before you use your hard-earned savings or try to borrow money to start one.

The trade group said high oil prices have "wiped out much of the hard-earned savings" from things like cost-cutting and better fuel efficiency.

"Why would people put their hard-earned savings in schemes where the level of returns is so disproportionately higher than normal market trends?"