Maybe I'll try this when I get home tonight- what does it look like when you just drop 50,000 gold on the floor?

What happens if you do thin in the middle of town?

Side-note: I was using Wabbajack on a bunch of enemies and one of them turned into a pile of 137 gold coins.

Make a treasury room in a house, fill it with gold ingots and loads of septims

Try to get a bunch of flawless gems as well

Never thought of gold , but you can start a decent fight dropping things like diamonds in taverns.Hmmm there should be a way to favorite gold and move it to the Z button and just leave trails. You could do dungeons Hanzel and Gretel-style.

I have found over 600,00 and have on me 170,00 gold. Am level 50 with 146 hrs of game play However I do only have two homes at the min but I am wearing dragon armor which has been enchanted twice so part from buying more homes and horses ( have stolen 19 and brought 43 something tells me that I shouldnt try and walk down the ragged side of cliffs anymore ) not really alot I can spend my gold on but who care off to kill something I go lol.

I am in a similar spot. level 51, I have 5 houses, but only use the Dawnstar sanctuary and the house in Riften (not glitched, thank the 9).

I stopped collecting everything, and only collect gems, gold, and scrolls now. The occasional rarer potions ingredient (spriggan sap, etc.), but not much else. I used my cash to up my pickpocket by following guards around pickpocketing them, then paying the 25 g fine when I got caught. I just followed the same guy around for an hour and a half and got my pickpocket up over 80. I lost about 500 or 600 g that way, but really, so what? I'm still at 215k +. I was as high as 340k, but started buying anything I needed, rather than checking the bodies of everyone I killed. I really only check dragons and chests now, come to think of it.

Skyrim definitely need more money sinks. Houses are great for eating up coin but usually only the first or second one. Once you get your first one, the others are a matter of choice and not necessity but are good sinks. However once they're all gone - that's it. You're a walking bank [mostly - of course for some it's not easy to save gold but as you progress it typically gets easier].

I'm trying to think of ways that money could be exchanged for XP [if one hasn't gotten to high a level] and all I can think of would be training, as was mentioned, but also buying out smithing ingredients from vendors and converting that into XP at the smithing station then selling everything. Then Enchanting Jewelry to bump that skill... All worthy investments if you have the gold to buy ores, ingots and jewels and jewelry rather than time to mine or find.

As for future modding ideas - Most economy mods have a tendency to hurt low level players by simply upping the cost of things and that's not ideal. Ideally, if one has too much money, you want to give them reasons to spend it - not reasons not to have it in the first place.

I'd hate to suggest the cliche sinks like gambling but lets be honest, it's valid.

Buying more expensive things like, say, a castle is another viable option but then it's just another house and once you've bought it and decorated it you're back to square one. It's not a consistent sink.

Upping the cost of a wagon ride might knock some coins out of your wallet at lower levels and maybe it can scale to a percentage of the coin you have rather than a fixed amount.

Maybe not allowing Mercs to get re-hired for free. Again, another option for using up coins at lower levels and maybe once you release them, they take a percentage of all coins earned while employed. It's only fair.

Getting pick-pocketed or having your house robbed?

Degrading weapons and armor [another 'groan' idea but still a sink].

Did you atleast get a blwjob?

Imagine dropping that much cheese infront of a fire dragon.
FONDUE PARTY!!!!

I've been collecting followers and equipping them with stuff I smith as I go along. Really slowed down the rate I gain money at.

Money sinks:

Real estate tax on your homes

Upkeep costs for horses

Fines scale with wealth

Npcs pick pocket you if you have too much money

You must not spend a dime or something. I've only had 100k once (and that was purely for the achievement, otherwise no more than about 30k) because I'm always buying stuff. Training smihing comes to mind, and I don't mean just iron dagger. Going to alchemy stores and buying everything, do that everywhere. Just selling loot and not spending your money, then yeah I guess you'd have 200k.

I tend to hoard all of my valuables and not sell them. I'm always pretty broke.

They could always make marriage a money sink in the game, it is in the real world after all. Maybe something like get married and 60% of your income disappears as soon as you get it for no perceivable benefit.

OP, you could buy up some miscellaneous junk and start renovating areas like Autumnwatch Tower and any abandoned forts that you find and really like. I do that, and I don't have a large fortune to work with. You could also smith a whole lot of armor and what not, buy up all of the houses and have them upgraded, buy every spell and unique weapon/armor at vendors, and enjoy your time. Earning that wealth is nice, and use it on whatever you want.

I wanna give dragonplate to every guard. and a decent sword. Then whenever i get bored have a go at them and they actually last long before getting killed:P

Stupid easy to make money in this game so don't assume he cheated. I had over 500k on my 1st character. As soon as you get the enchantment banish all daggers you enchant with it is worth between 900-1500. All you need is iron ignot, leather strip and a gem soo you make a good amount of profit on each one.

Since I am perpetually poor, that sounds like a good idea.

Like I have said before though, if you want to burn some cash, buy up some junk and arrange it nicely in your little forts and towers and use them as houses and whatnot. Buy up whatever you want to buy, or go on a crime spree and then pay off your bounty and waltz away.

I've never really upgraded the skill pick-pocket all that much but I'm assuming you can reverse pickpocket armor, weapons, and other items onto random NPCs (or named ones) in order to make Skyrim able to stand on their own when the Dominion eventually attacks...or you could hope that you'll have a ton of new stuff to buy when the DLC comes out...considering how long it is taking to make it I think the likelihood of a nice big DLC pack and possibly one or two smaller ones will have quite a bit of new stuff to buy...pretty sure bethesda is noticing that a lot of people are complaining that they have all that money and nothing to do with it.

For me, money is a good challenge for the early part of the game, maybe first 40 or 50 levels. Then at some point, money stops being a challenge, because you finally solved the money problem. I think it gives you nice RPG "I've improved" feel.

Stop selling and start adventuring. I have no idea why having 200k gold spoils anything. It's not like you are weighed down and can't move. Just ignore it. OTOH, if your name is Monk, then speak to Trudy's ghost for advice.