Separate your activities and be more organized. I used to go out "adventuring" or "harvesting" or city/town "ransacking". However, I now have plenty of inventory space on some of my characters and the bank. Also, most of my researching is done, so I sell white stuff to traveling merchants, only keep green or better. I don't have to go to the bank for many hours at a stretch.

All provisioning mats I pick up go to one of my guilds bank. These two addons are invaluable for managing inventory.
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info381-PersonalAssistant.html
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info245-AdvancedFilters.html

I change out my main adventuring character from time to time, so the others become temporary bank alts. The 3 main crafting professions blacksmith, woodworker, clothing and a enchanter. So mainly 4 characters I'm leveling. One bank alt for overflow. Eventually you figure out what to keep and what to throw out as the stacks of 100 accumulate.

What @Nestor said. Bag alts. On top of that just plan to blow some coin on overpriced spaces as well. The further you progress the less is there is really to spend gold on anyways.

Edit: Oh,and just remember pretty much anything you need or even want later on you can get from one of your five guilds, the guild kiosks, or zone chat.

Dont Shoot wrote: »

I like to pick stuff up. Like everything sometimes.

Stop picking stuff up. Like everything sometimes.

I hit 50 on some of my crafts and started vendoring all whites/greens, saving blues for decon mats. Stopped picking up low value junk like shoes and belts unless I have ample room. If you can stick to picking up only 2h items for vendor trash, even better. I destroy almost all racial mats after clearing/deconning. Toss a lot of essences runes. Vendor extra stacks of pots, bars, all wood, yadda yadda.

Bag alts are not the way to go. Down that road lies madness, and not the good type.

I am doing crafting alts instead. Rather than standing in a bank all day transferring materials from one character to another, I have decided to split crafting among the characters. Each character has a couple of crafting skills that they specialize in. Each character collects materials suitable for the crafts they do. I have crafting split up to efficiently use Motifs.

Collect and retain only what you need at the moment. If you are still running out of bag space, change your focus so that you can concentrate on specific items. Consume your items rather than storing them. When the bags get full, go back to a town and deal with it. I never leave town until my bag space is about 50% capacity or less. If it is over that, then I am packratting too much and I adjust things.

I don't do more than one needy craft at a time. This means leveling Provisioning, Alchemy, and Enchanting at the same time. Provisioning is a possible exception since campfires can be found in the wild, but don't keep more than you need for the next couple of hours.

Build up your bank space so that you can store materials in the bank. I have decided that Enchanting materials are rare enough to collect all the time so they go into the bank and I only retain what I need for leveling.

Never collect more than 100 of anything. If you get to 100 of something, it is time to destroy, use, or sell it. If you cannot use it and cannot sell it, stop collecting it.

As a result of the above, the bulk of my storage space is actually used to stage stuff for the Guild Store.

This is not Elder Hoarders Online. You do not need to keep everything. You do not need to level everything at the same time.

Be realistic about what you really need.

I have bag alts I use, each one holds spare mats for a different craft. Calling them "alts" is a little generic though, I've actually levelled several of them to VR levels (They earn gold that way and I can buy them more bag space, plus I have different classes I can play at my leisure).

The only other "advice" that I haven't seen here is this: Don't waste your time saving most provisioning items. There will be 1, maybe 2 food items that you will regularly use. Take the hour or two that it takes to "farm" containers, make those food items, and then throw away all the rest of the provisioning mats. Provisioning is the biggest waste of space in the game, there's too many items and the materials are pretty easy to come by. Make exception for the "rare" ingredients for your 1-2 food items (ex: Red Wheat).

As far as other crafts go, again, be realistic. Once you've got a stack or two of a particular mat, you're set. No need to hold anything above and beyond that. Toss them on a mule for that rainy day when you want to level a alt.

My mules (always buy them 2 bag upgrades, it's pretty cheap)
1 for enchanting mats
1 for alchemy mats
1 for extra BS \ Cloth \ WW mats
1 for miscellaneous items I may want to use again (Vet 1 warlock set for example)

Amongst these mules I also have all the disguises and trophies I've picked up along the way. Not sure why I save the disguises, I never use them, but I simply mention to show I still have room for "frivolous" things.

esoui.com/downloads/info661-CirconiansJunkItLootManager.html

I sell all whites/greens/sometimes blues. I only keep mats in my bank and an extra armor set for a diff playstyle. I have a couple mules, but 1 is only b/c i pack rat and save extra mats and the other is... well, really same reason, I saved all the costumes from questing and trophies and stuff on him. I've upgraded my bank and bag space to the max. I have an alternative horse for just dungeoning, when i don't need speed, that is all pack. And I don't pack rat in my own bank or bags. I only keep the handful of provisioning items i actually need.

Never keep a stack of more than 100 of anything...if you have more, sell in the store, if it doesn't sell in the store, than it's not worth keeping.

Food ingredients, drink ingredients, and crafting materials will be your bane. Keep the stuff you will be using, get rid of anything else.

Get a feel in the stores too. If you see things like...oh I don't know, tomatoes, oats, pepper, and salt listed for high prices, you probably should hang on to them

Complain in the Forums that Zeni should increase the max Bank space - whine alot.

Oh, you wanted useful answers: Mules with horses with max bags

Rodario wrote: »

That sounds like a TOS violation, because it's automated.

It caused some issues for people, but the timers that send the mail have been adjusted so that it should not trigger the spam algorithms.

This is just an issue of Personal Behavior. You need to be Personally Responsible for the management of your Inventory.

All you need to do, is keep items you are USING and SELL items you aren't, which causes you to make money while freeing up space. How many items do you need? What level are you? What is your crafting professions? How many characters do you have?

You don't need to collect everything like a person on Hoarders. You need to practice Responsible Inventory Management.

Edit:

And, you should be glad ESO has an Inventory Management Simulator minigame.

You don't need all that crap. Sell or decon the weapons, craft/keep only food/pots you use, learn what you use in crafting and only keep the required mats.

I have 5 characters, and I have never had inventory issues. Sounds like a You Problem.

A You Problem means "You have a problem."

Nestor wrote: »

Who says we need it? We want it. That is different. You don't hear me saying you have a problem because you can't keep anything around for very long...

Sounds like you want the wrong things. Learn to live with what you have.

#Firstworldproblems.

Soloeus wrote: »

Sounds like you want the wrong things. Learn to live with what you have.

#Firstworldproblems.

Sounds like your intolerant of others who want to do anything different than you have decided is the best way to do things. Good luck with that, it will serve you well in life.