I actually liked that that the money in Morrowind was an inventory items. I always dropped some stacks of 100's on the floor and showed of my richness. And the money there was actually usefull, although in the end I also had loads of it. In Skyrim I bought all the houses with furniture, for the rest it's useless. Carring 500k at the moment.

This. Between training and buying things like better enchanted gear (for characters who don't perk enchant, which is most of my characters) plus high level spell books, my characters are constantly poor. Of course none of them are higher than 42 level and I never fast travel so I do spend a little coin on carriage rides and spend most of my time out of doors where there is much less treasure than in dungeons.

If you take your time and explore the landscape, and don't go out of your way to make an uber wealthy character, you won't have too much gold until very high levels. If you fast travel all the time, going from dungeon to dungeon and loot everything in sight, then yeah, you are going to amass a huge fortune pretty quickly.

It's a gameplay choice just like the choice of whether you play and perk your character to be uber powerful. You can do it easily enough but it can also be easily enough avoided.

It would be fun to watch the NPCs in Skyrim fighting over it if they let you drop it on the floor.

My fiance had a good idea she mentioned to me the other day. PROPERTY TAXES! Call it a tribute to the Jarl for the priviledge of owning a house.

http://gafh.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/scrooge_mcduck.jpg

Unless you set yourself your own rules then gold becomes irrelevant at around level 20 after which you don't need to worry about it. What bugs me a little is you can enchant to get free spells, so don't need magicka, and building stamina to carry more is pointless when you don't need to pick up things, so health is the only one worth raising. Don't get me wrong, I love the game, but the more I play it, the more flaws surface. I like some of the ideas in this thread, mine would be to have a weekly maintenance charge for your houses, that way you would need to keep the money flowing in to keep them.

My latest character doesn't have much gold because of the way I role play. She doesn't sell anything. She only picks up what she can use personally, or gold pieces. So the only gold she gets are rewards and the pieces she finds/steals. The idea is that she is a thief/assassin and doesn't want to attract attention by selling tons of stuff. The practical reason was, what's the point of having tons of money and nothing to do with it?

This character also refuses to use magic spells. Potions are okay, Setting constraints on your character like this is an interesting way to play.

I either buy weapons (mainly daedric), armor and jewerly with an enchantment I want, every house and every upgrade, and training for when I get bored.

Sometimes I sneak through Nordic ruins, but instead of killing mobs, I put a few coins into the burial urns.

Screw balancing Destruction; sure would've been nice if someone had taken the time to balance the [censored] economy.

I prefer to just drop it one by one in my house until the floor is covered, looks so awesome just wading through it lol.

I like to go to the edge of cliffs and FUS RO DAH a pile of gold off on unsuspecting passerbys

Yeah gold sinks yes please!
These kind of games always leave you with oceans of gold(well you would do if you could drop the damn stuff) and nothing to buy...skyrim is worse than Ob for this, fewer paid services like smithing n enchating is really a shame.
Some real project would have been nice like a village or fort to get off the ground and maintain, would have given you a more reason to want to adventure more are higher level.
I find after a certain while you end up being incredably selective with what you loot, i pretty much only take top teir enchanted gear, potions and any crafting items, just leave most of it, everything has gold in it...why stuff your dead with gold achient nord dudes its just not cool.
Hopefull dlc adds in any real service like enchanters, smith, fletchers, alchemists and cooks that can actully craft items at your request.
A housrle that actully costs alot you know make it unreasonable amount! Seriously so it may actully take me a few days to save for, not just straight up with the spare change in my left pocket and still have enough left over to buy half of solitude and sleep with even argonian maid in all off tamerial.
Ps-...yeah what is with that! i hate grinding that puppy, literaly... More trainers in DLC, good trainers, interesting trainers, trainers were you actully train not just use them as an atm for skill points, trainers that also teach special techniques that gain you new perks, bonuses and abilities for the right price! <---- stuff
Mini rant over...

Nothing, I have sooooo mmmuuuucchhhh I don't know what to do with it!!!! I don't even bother to loot bodies unless the gear is worth 1000+ coin anymore

Since I have all but one house and they are all furnished, all the is left is to buy horses from all towns where available and get training. Still need the $100,000 in septims achievement. So I need to get there as well.

Horde it. And view it as a sign of success. Never really felt any need for "gold sinks" in TES games.

Hoard it.

All their gold? I don't get where people get all this gold from. I am a level 40, and between buying food, potions and trying to upgrade my house I am as broke as the beggar in Solitude.

Need to be able to "invest" in a Brothel....

I use my gold to to buy every house in the game.

Me too, and I never saved up enough for the Solitude house. Level 42 with the Markath house and only seven or eight thousand Septims to my name.

How the hell do you drop gold?

You don't because you can't. Those who say they have have lied to you.

OT: I've bought every house in the game and I'm still sitting on 150,000 septims. I've found that the best way to spend all of that is to pay for training. It gets *very* expensive as you get better in whatever skill you're trying to train.

I wish you could drop it, I'd either fill kettles with it or pull a rich Peter Griffin to see if it really does act as a solid

If you could drop gold I would've made a http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/547/scroogemcduck.jpg by now.

...you actually buy stuff? With TES games, I tend to try to make my characters self-sufficient. Like, in Oblivion - all I buy is Repair Hammers (and the few spells needed for enchanting). Repair my own gear (don't use any enchanted gear until Smithing is 50+), use soul gems & Ayleid crystals to recharge enchanted gear, brew my own potions, etc.

This is probably why I don't care about there being "enough" gold sinks.... I try not to buy anything in the first place.