I spend tons. pretty much always start and end at home every session. putting stuff on the shelves, best cheeses in skyrim on the table, cleaning up, making a few potions, reading a book and such. it is soooo cool to have a house. sometimes i get so immersed i hardly go outside lol

I barely live in my house in whiterun. I just use it to store stuff.

It depends on my character.

Most of my characters do, doing much the same sort of things as you mention.
Oh, and putting things back when I knock them over or when Sheogareth takes a hand in redecorating my house when I'm out
Angharad doesn't. Her motto is "Have bedroll, will travel". So far shes never spent a night in a city/town never mind a house.

yeah I like the whole 'playing house' aspect at times. I like it when my character goes back to his nice cosy place by the fire (consoled in a nice comfy throne in front of the fire) after a long expidition across the frozen wastes. I also like to create lots of display cabinets to display the cool unique stuff (mainly all the daedric quest stuff at the mo)

Well, my xbox is in my home, so yes very much time indeed

Seriously though, I am bare ever in my home(s) in Skyrim.

Although I'm taking my duties as Archmage very seriously, I still call Whiterun home. I love my little house. The enchanted weapon the Jarl presented me with still takes pride of place in the rack on the wall, and the bookshelf is filled with copies of my favourite spell tomes. All my ore and ingots are stored in the cupboard to the left as you enter, along with my gauntlets and amulet of smithing, for convenient access to the smithy next door at Warmaiden's. I've moved almost everything else to my official chambers in Winterhold, but Breezehome is still where my heart is. I keep civilian clothes in the dresser there, so I can relax away from the pressures of work, and I like to walk around the town and through the pleasant farmland outside, just to release the tension. One day, when all my work is done, I''ll retire there. I'd marry Lydia in a second and settle down with her, but I have too much respect for her prowess as a warrior. A day will come when she dies in battle and rather than re-loading, I accept it, mourn her, and move on. I'll sit by the fire eating baked potatoes and salmon steaks, looking fondly at her empty chair (hers is the one to the right, as I sit looking towards the door), and I'll remember our days of high adventure. Maybe I'll nip across the road to my local occasionally. It's a good life.

I spend a fair amount of time at honeyside in riften. anytime i get back from questing i'll go for a swim in the lake (to collect fish) and then have a quick nap before making a few potions in the basemant and setting off for the next round of quests

I make most of my "keep this save" saves in player homes, I did the same thing in Morrowind and Oblivion. I like collecting books in the dungeons and RP'ing my character sitting at home reading the collected books while recovering from one exploration and preparing for another.

Depending on the char. my Thief spends alot of time at home between job's. I decorate, make potions, enchant thing's.... read book's.. Take a swim in the mornings. Go down to the Cistern and chat with my guild buddies. Do smithing...that requires walking to Shor to smelt ingot's first and I collect ingredients on the round trip.

I would like to start storing and collecting books or amulets or something to put in my house. As of now, mine is not very homely. Sadly due to my busy schedule, I cant stop and enjoy the simpler things in skyrim and my own goals, and I more focus on the quests. But hopefully that will change.

i get pissed off at teh houses cause the game is still bugged. Everytime i decorate the house i'll leave and come back and a torando ripped through my house and everything is a mess@

I dont usually get a house, I just live at the College of Winterhold.

No. My characters are not homebodies, but some of them do spend a lot of time in the tavern, especially the tavern in Whiterun. For some reason, stopping by there, having a pint of mead and listing to a rousing rendition of Ragnar the Red never gets old.

I used to, putting things out for decoration etc.

Then the CK came out, and you realize that you can re-design everything in your house/s.