As others have pointed out, money is a byproduct of having fun in Skyrim, it's quite easy to rake in the septims without every picking up anything weighing more than a potion. Honestly, my economic OCD is having bizzarre effects, because not only do I have 200,000 septims, but I also have hundreds of daggers of banishing/absorb health in a cupboard in Breezehome, just waiting for me to pull out and sell.

Really, at some point the gating factor for making money won't be your ability to produce things of value, but your ability to sell those things to vendors.

For every post out here where folks are like "omg, how do I get more money?" there's someone else out here who posts that they have my playing experience and have tons of gold and nothing left to spend it on.

For every post out here where folks are like "omg, how do I get more money?" there's someone else out here who posts that they have my playing experience and have tons of gold and nothing left to spend it on.

I'd like to get feedback on both sides.

Are you the sort of player who is always broke? For whom there is just never enough gold to get you the next greatest or coolest thing and who has to always pay attention to every earning opportunity for just a few more septims?

Hopefully this thread is for you.

If you're the sort of player who always has piles and bags and chests of gold, how are you doing this?

What advice can you give to the players, and believe me they're out there in vast numbers, who cannot seem to keep a few hundred septims together long enough even to buy a house?

I'll be honest and tell you I've given this answer a bunch of times in those threads about not being able to make money.

I go to dungeons and I loot it all, and by all, I do mean checking every wall that looks like it might move, looting every urn every sleeping draugr every nook and cranny of shelf, table, bowl and floor space scoured for loose gems, gold and fun things to sell. I prioritize this, too... even from the start I do not pick up blades that are heavy or heavy armor that is too heavy when it's just not space and gold effective. I pay attention to gold, gems and lightweight items (heck... 1 conjurer's robe weighs 1 and sells for 120g and the heavy armor that weighs 30 is only gonna sell for 60g.)

I don't buy anything I don't have to buy. I go get it. If I want to level my enchanting and don't have any soul gems then I hit up a Dwemer ruin and I loot it all. If I need new armor and I'm not a smith, I go and target locations with things to kill that will have my armor type. If I'm a smith then I go mining.

I don't focus on any profession I'm not going to use. I've found that alchemy is really less effective for me because I loot everything anyway, so I come up with tons of potions. Alchemy is a great way to make cash and until you've spent enough perks in it I found it not to be as useful to me as just a way to make cash. Enchanting always helps me and always makes me cash, and I've found the same is true of blacksmithing, though I don't spend perks in it.

The maximum gold on any one character at any time was my level 50 Spellsword, and she had over 200,000 before I started going and getting her houses. She retired with over 110,000 still on her. I have a level 24 who is right on her heels with 140,000 already and two houses.

Making money in this game isn't my problem... it's finding ways to spend it. I tried once to get Silda to pick up some extra cash and she did, but at one gold at a time on the ground... yeah... it's a pain. Next time I think I'll reverse pickpocket her.

How do you do it? What do you do to have mountains of cash in Tamriel?