

Most importantly, Get yourself a follower. none of these tips are spoilers, they will simply make your Skyrim experience that much more enjoyable or less frustrating (depending on whether you're a glass half-full or half-empty type :-) ) but, where there's a will, you will find a way! Here are some handy tips for the hoarding junkies like me: It pains me to leave something behind in a cave or dungeon after hours of battle and scavanging for treasure, rare ingredients, weapons etc. These are the ones that come to mind right now. All of them are ridiculously light compared to their value. The same goes for enchanted necklaces, rings, and robes.Search for gems and soulstones! They weigh almost nothing and are usually decently valuable.But carrying around 50 or so books (there are a lot in Skyrim!) takes up at least a good fifth or your carrying capacity - for little to no value. Store your books somewhere! At least I picked up every book that I could find, promising myself to read them one day.They are among the most heavy objects in the game, while usually not having a very high value. Get rid of dragon bones! Although selling them might be a bad idea, since you can craft dragon bone armor if you get deep into the smithing skill tree.In the end game, light armor will give you the same protection as heavy armor does, but it is.

If you don't want to invest perk points in armor trees, get light armor.Well, lacking a precise formula (even though there certainly is one, the problem can be nailed down mathematically since the only variables are the weight of items, the value of items, and the total amount that you can carry), all I can do is give you some tips:
