I was just looking through my safe in solitude, I realised I have a fair amount of gems. How many do you have?

My list:
540 x amethyst
382 x flawless amethyst
658 x garnet
350 x flawless garnet
467 x sapphire
512 x flawless sapphire
203 x emerald
324 x flawless emerald
406 x ruby
477 x flawless ruby
216 x diamond
102 x flawless diamond

Wow, nowhere near that many lol. I'd have to count but most of the numbers are in the 20's or 30's that are kept in safes and such. I sell most of them.

Holy hell that's a lot. I usually sell all of my gems I get.

Prowler's Profit?

I've never sold 1 lol, I've played for over 600 hours, and I play on ps3.

Two of my characters have lots, in every main game house. Braggen sells some of his though to keep his money levels up to more than he could ever spend, he has that perk that just gives him tons of gems, and there is no point collecting that many. But he cannot resist taking the pretty sparkly things. The second character never sells hers.

Yeah, and I have the treasure hunter perk from the lockpicking tree.

Curious to see your full build.

i always use them to create necklaces and rings to raise my smithing skills

It's all over the place, I haven't got skyrim loaded at the moment.
The only skills I put perks into are:
Heavyweight, 1 handed, archery, lockpicking, smithing, destruction, enchanting, pickpocketing.

That's off the top of my head.

This is my build, I know it's all over the shop, it was my first character.

http://au.ign.com/builds/the-elder-scrolls-5-skyrim?d=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000120000011110100000000000000000000000510011100100011111151111000000000000000000000500000002051110200000000000000000000000000011001111110510101115111111

Jus for the record, I'm level 81.