So I've got so much gold from over 200 hours of game time but I can't really find much to spend it on.. I've done the obvious:

- Invested in merchants
- Bought all houses
- I train when I can
- Kitted out my follower (s)

It just makes me wonder what people other than myself spend their gold on?

It's a problem, because after you have bought all of the houses there really isn't much more to spend it on.

It would have been nice if all of the shop keepers had unique, high priced items to buy. Not just more random loot. I don't think I've ever paid money for a weapon or armor at a shop or blacksmith.

Currently i have over 130.000 septims. I carry it around and convince thieves that i don't have any gold Later i'll try to bribe Al to stop his evil scheme, if he doesn't take it, i can always kill him by throwing my coin purse at him

So in other words, nothing. I think of as a score counter like the games of eighties had

I've wasted money by instead of using a soul trap weapon to fill soul gems, whenever I'm in town I buy all the filled Greater or less soul gems and enchant the gear I found on quests to raise my enchanting.

Well I role play, at the moment I'm a monk so I don't loot Nordic dungeons or the dead. Since I'm also a drunk I tend to clear the Inns I sleep in out of ale (so I pay rent, won't buy property for RP purposes) and eat twice a day (follower as well).

I find the drinking really pounds my purse, 650g for 10 x Black Briar Mead. Kinda steep in my opinion, screw you Maven!!!

Griselda has bought all the houses except Hjerim
Trained a lot
Amassed a lot of shinies

She has Frost and Shadowmere, hates dogs, has kitted her followers out with stuff shes looted, and made a lot of jewellery so theres nothing else for her to do with the money

I had an interesting thought just today about what to do with surplus gold. Would only work with a follower, but I was thinking that if I have one - particularly a hireling, who will stay with you practically forever in return for a one-time hiring fee - it would be nice to start sharing the profits of our adventures with him/her. Even with followers that come with you because you did them a favor, it seems unreasonable to have them hanging around watching your back through a lot of really dangerous stuff and then you take all the loot for yourself and only hand them some better gear (which is really as much to your benefit as theirs).

So I was thinking maybe there will come a point where I decide that someone has served way and above the call of duty, and I'm raking in more gold than I need to keep us both fed and housed and kitted up nicely... and I'll start splitting the profits with them. Come back from an adventure, sell (or craft and sell) what we don't need, improve anything we're gonna keep, and then whatever gold's left over from the haul I'll split with them. Payments from third parties for bounties or services rendered could just be split immediately.

Not sure how well the idea works for a housecarl, since it's more of an official "duty" for them to fight for you when you ask, and I don't know if it's reasonable to think that they receive some kind of stipend from the Jarl's court or what. But if I'm with them long enough it's because I like them well enough to consider them friends and not servants so maybe I would split profits with them as well.

I know the gold will just sit there in their inventory, but when you've got it running out your ears and nothing to spend it on, it might as well sit somewhere other than your own pocket. It might also make it more challenging at lower levels where you don't yet have tons of cash to spare *and* you've got to share what comes in with the person who helped you get it. I suppose you could figure the value of any extra gear you give them into the equation as well.

Arrows. My hunter only trades pelts and food so she doesn't have a lot of money

Right now i spend it on supplies for smithing, the new method is nice...but also expensive.

With the lusty argonian... of course.

Drink.

Currently Deimos is holding Stenvars money.

Stenvar, "I'm a grown man I can carry my own gold,"

Deimos, "A grown man who spends half of his coin on tavern drinks instead of practical items,"

Stenvar, "I always tell you, that you need to loosen up,"

Deimos, "If I loosened up like you did then I would not have any money,"

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But I generally use all my money on spells. They cost a lot. And I like to buy them in bulk.