How do you make easy money?

Read the title.
I don't want any glich stuff such as the transmute spell or mass enchanted daggers.

I'll start
When you get into one of the town palaces(Dragonsreach , Blue Palace etc) go into the Jarl's headquarters.The first time is always easy because the Jarl is talking for a cuple of minutes.Inside the Jarl's headquarters you find a lot of loot.Take Riften for example.I found a box of emeralds and sapphires + some expensive jewlery.Sometimes the court wizzard has master level scrolls.

My policy of rarely ever fast travelling means I have ample opportunity to gather alchemy ingredients.

Some recipes with prolific and common ingredients I make with the aim of selling:
Blue Butterfly Wing+Blue Flower=Super dooper expensive potion.
Purple Flower+Snowberries/Thistle= Decently priced potion of some of the most common easily found ingredients in all Skyrim.

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Thieves Guild Jobs or Dark brotherhood Jobs.

TG jobs are pretty easy money for some of them

what i do is i just do quests for the stewards, or I go to dragon lairs and kill the dragons and just sell the dragon bone/scales and that usually gets me a sufficient amount of coin

Twiflle ,

Companion jobs I noticed last week pay pretty well. But I don't know if you can always get one.

iamblazelflack said:

Companion jobs I noticed last week pay pretty well. But I don't know if you can always get one.

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The Companion jobs are unending, even when you become Harbinger, although some are repeated but still a good earner, , ,

Don't fast travel. Always go inside caves, dungeons or ruins. By mid game you won't even need your gold.

Did you just kill some fool bandit or draugr. Good on you, thats why they are there. Now loot that corpse, loot it good. Leave no recently killed body unlooted!

And you my friend will always have some coin.

I put my in game wife to work on the street corners while I'm off adventuring.

Between her & Lydia, they turn quite a hustle in my Breezeholm Bordella!

MorriganWitch said:

I put my in game wife to work on the street corners while I'm off adventuring.

Between her & Lydia, they turn quite a hustle in my Breezeholm Bordella!

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Now thats one hell of a mod

Doing jobs for Delvin and Vex can go a long way, plus once you've done all of Delvin's special jobs all of the fences will have up to 4,000 Septums to trade with. Making potions and selling them is great too as it also increases your alchemy skill, which in turn helps you level up even if you don't invest in any of the perks.

My final method is the old tried and true, mining Iron, turning it to gold (thus raising my alteration skill) forging it into rings (raising the smithing perk) enchanting it with soul gems that I find in Dwemer ruins (raising my enchantment skill, and then of course selling them.

The real way to get money is via alchemy. Buy all the alchemy ingredients under 50g from all the alchemy merchants in Skyrim. Then craft the most expensive ones you can via a site like the one below.

Alchemy Potion Making Profit Calculator for Elder Scrolls: Skyrim - Joshua Kennon

You can get the ingredients for free just wandering around Skyrim. Just spend a little time on the eastern side of Skyrim and you can collect a ton of Snowberries and Dragon's tongue, thus allowing you to make Resist Fire potions all day long (I once gathered enough to make over 50)

My final method is the old tried and true, mining Iron, turning it to gold (thus raising my alteration skill) forging it into rings (raising the smithing perk) enchanting it with soul gems that I find in Dwemer ruins (raising my enchantment skill, and then of course selling them.[/quote]

raising your speech skill, , ,

I earned most of the 5 million + gold septims my khajiit has by being a thief and selling objects , weapons , etc I come across in the game. I have the game perk where you find expensive items in chests like jewels and higher ticket items like expensive armors etc . I made lots of gold by selling potions I have made by alchemy the ingredients I collect as I run the roads of skyrim or find in caves, forts and so on I never buy what I need I find them . I do use the respawnable chests once in awhile though however I sell off most if not all of the items in them. I also was a horder from the beginning of the game so all my houses are filled with stuff I will never use so its sell off what I dont need or ever plan to use . I am so gold fever bitten I return to a area I cleared after my carry weight is full just to collect what I left behind weapons , potions , armors etc my khajiit is a junk collector but sells off whatever he can to all I can it has taken me a long time to amass 5 miillion + in gold but I AM HAVING FUN DOING SO . Everything in skyrim has a price even dragon bones its sell sell sell I have tons of those collected to make armor to sell . I take from everyone the foresworn , orc strongholds, rob houses when possible , kill mercinaries take their stuff and sell it too . I even steal from the fences I sell to then sell back to them what I stole easy money in skyrim . There is one thing for sure my khajiit warrior type is not hurting for any gold septims in skyrim . I would buy out all the jarls if I could . I take anything of value from where I travel to in skyrim when possible .

I have found that mining ebony at Gloombound mine and crafting ebony gear nets quite a bit of septim. Aside from that pickpocket, pickpocket, pickpocket.

A good ol' raid usually does the trick. Slaughter tons of people, take their stuff, sell it, rinse repeat.

Thieves Guild number jobs are easy money.

Dark Brotherhood radiant assassinations are really easy money, and give you 3 targets at the same time for 750g a target, which is probably the best consistent paycheck in the game.