One nice thing they did in this game is include a method for shiping items. There's a shipping device in goodsprings outside the General store. In Primm there's on in the residence where you find Ed-e. You have to discover them before you can ship to them. When you open one it gives you the option to ship to any other one you've found. Pick where you want to send your junk, place as much as you want from your inventory, exit the screen and poof, you have mail.
As for storage I use the robot's house in Goodsprings since I can sleep there as well. He leaves eventually and it's an open residence that I use until I get to Novac. The containers in the hotel room in Novac are all safe too. I've put items in various storage containers in that room and never had any of it go missing.\
Also, as a test, I dropped some items on the ground by the work table in the Crimson Caravan compound and left it there for many days in game and nothing went missing. Can't say that's 100% safe and I wouldn't drop anything unique like that but junk should be fine.
That said I put some things in an NCR storage locker at a tent outside the town of Searchlight and when I came back later my stuff was gone. So be careful and don't put it just anywhere.


As far as junk goes I'm on a personal mission to clean up every single area I visit. So far I've sold off literally hundreds of old books, empty bottles, cans, crap food, tools, glasses, plates, and everything else I could pick up. Netted a few thousand caps in the process and everything looks so much cleaner.







I couldn't stop laughing when I read this post in a different forum.

Is this a quote you found somewhere else? Somebody should tell him to do OWB and stop getting rid of useful items.

i have a mild version of this. When I move into a space thats mine (Novac apartment, safehouses etc) I pick up everything that isnt nailed down and throw it in the garbage or vendor it. The rest of the containers in the house get separated by Inventory header eg: Misc, Ammo, Weapons etc. Nice, clean, organized space

On a semirelated note, it really bothers me that theres so much garbage in the wasteland (Mojave and Capital) as if we wouldnt know it was a post apocalyptic landscape without copious amounts of garbage centuries after the apocalypse. Especially so as a military vet IRL walking through a place like Fort Macarran terminal and seeing all the garbage the NCR troopers are kicking around. Wheres the discipline?! Though I rationalize it by thinking theyre lacking just that, discipline, plus the fact that theyre so demoralized they cant even bother to clean up their living space