This, do not understand why they could not added an safe container in or outside Alvors house in Riverwood and let him tell it was safe to store stuff where.

I bought the breeze home and the nice bed is owned and I can't sleep in it. Why?

Most likely that is your housecarls. Try the other bed, the one with the end tables on both sides.

The other bed is unusable. It has no mattress or stuff and appears and is unusable. I have bought no furnishings but can't sleep in only decent bed in house. svcks.

Evetyone has mentioned storage, but what about for roleplaying purposes? I mean you can't stay at inns forever you might want to settle down at some point.

"A place for all your stuff" -George Carlin

Ok everyone says storage but.as soon as you join a guild you get a room/bed along with a chest of your own. I've stored my stuff for example in my room the the college and they are still there.
Haven't tried it with the companions and you don't get a specific room in DB or the thieves guild so not sure about them.

I can only speak for myself and my own exploring/hoarding habits, but I have 775 lbs of alchemy ingredients packed into that little satchel on Breezehome's alchemy table. 1592 lbs worth of crap in my "misc" barrel that holds stuff related to smithing or enchanting: ingots, ore, gems, leather, pelts, soul gems, et al.

Buying a house was an immediate priority for me. I know my TES playing habits well enough already: I hoard.

Opening up major cities hasn't been a huge priority for me; I'm lvl 28 and just recently even made it anywhere near Solitude and Windhelm. I made it to Morthal, but that's basically a glorified village.



Not feasible for me, at least not in this game, since chest contents aren't sorted by type (it's just alphabetical). I need a separate storage vessel for each type of hoardable crap.

I bought my house for storage and I guess that 7% Well Rested bonus...

I just sell my stuff and manage inventory space accordingly. Yes, dragon bones and scales are sold.

Wow omg so what.

Sell your crap and stop collecting more of it and you won't need house.

Whatever you say, O arbiter of how to properly play a TES game.

Training? Who buys training? What a waste of money to rob you of the experience of doing it yourself. Why would you want to be high level at something?

Now a house, that is a great investment. I own 15 of them myself IRL and plan on buying another 5-15 before I retire. Oh but you are talking Skyrim. Still a great investment. A place to store your ingredients so you can make potions later as you collect them. Dragon bones as everyone else has said. Ingots and ore weigh a lot and often you only have one ingot but need two to craft the next, and all those pounds add up quickly. Ingredients alone can start weighing a lot. So given the fact that Skyrim makes it difficult to carry a lot of stuff a house and a pack mule er um companion are essential.

Plus you can make your own potions at home, cook at home, and store all the special treasure you don't want to part with for meager coin.

Plus a well rested perk for the bed you own and a little role playing is nice so a home is essential for me.

I probably have around 20-30K worth of gold sitting in my house right now. Mostly legendary dragon armor that would weigh in the 1000's.

So you could waste 5K leveling up smiting at the low levels when it is easy to level up, or you could make an investment that will allow you to stash plenty of worth.

Smiting and enchanting is overpowered even on master difficulty,better dont use them.

All of the above...storage, crafting etc. and...if you get married, your wife will be in whichever home you choose, to give treats and a custom store etc. Currently own one home in Whiterun and another in Windhelm, both fully upgraded.

You dont need a house for storage..

I store all my items in one of the barrles at the blacksmith girl in Whiterun. This way i got all my stuff close if i want to craft some thing..


The OP is right, i dont understand why you need a house.. I did bought the Breeze house though, but im never there..

Non house safe container according uesp is only

In other containers items will dissapear unsless its house

I dont feel comfortable leaving all my valuables in a freaking barrel, not that a chest inside a locked home make any difference, since nobody ever enters your home it just feels better :biggrin:

I've got all my nice loot adorning my home in Whiterun.

I have Voldrung over the door, the Sanguine Rose on the landing, two dragon-priest staffs above my bed and two more swanky staffs on the weapon rack.

Realised the other day id spent a good hour putting armour in one chest, weapons in another, ingots in another.....etc. etc. My IRL bedroom is a tip.

Looks nice tho, after I've finished with Skyrim for the day, I always trek back home to Whiterun, sit by the fire and have a bottle of wine and a steak and save it there; always nice to reload your save looking at a roaring fire.

<3 my house

A real ranger/assassin/thief of Skyrim does not need to pay for a fancy house. There are tons of caves, mines and locations in the wilderness that can be used as a home - for free. My character have taken home in an abandoned mine near Riften. There are lots of items left behind from the miners that worked in it, so it feels inhabited. There are lights, barrels, bags, a little waterfall and a table. I use the bags and barrels to store all my stuff, and have Riften and small towns nearby when I need to buy or sell things.

I know some areas will reload, which causes anything stored in there to disappear, but this mine was completely empty from the beginning, so I know it won't reload.