[Lox]

There are mods you can download that give you a house to store your stuff in. From what I've heard on this board the most popular one is called "House on a Hill." Try looking in past threads, the mod and its location have been mentioned many times.

As for a place to leave your stuff, I use a couple. In Vivec, in the Foreign Quarter plaza I have a Master's set of Alchemical equipment, a huge pile of ingredients and a bunch of soul gems sitting on the ground behind one of the planters. No one has touched them yet and they've been there for several game days, maybe weeks. I don't think anyone would take them if they were out in the open, but I like hiding them back in the corner.

The other place I stashed stuff is in one of the farm houses between Vivec and Suran. When I first came across this area, I was in my potion making phase. I thought, "This is great, look at all this verdant farmland. Here I can grow all the ingredients I need, every couple weeks make a trip to Vivec to sell potions." So I picked a fight with a farmer and took his house and marshmerrow farm. Later I found out he was the guy to see about getting marshmerrow for the imperial cult, but oh well, I found some without his help. So now I have a stash of alchemical ingredients in his house. Of course, I don't work the farm anymore. It turns out that farming is not quite as exciting as adventuring. And so many of the cool ingredients come from creatures.

I've heard that some containers will "repopulate" with their original contents, but I haven't witnessed this. In the farmhouse, I keep all my stuff in one crate and it hasn't disappeared yet. It has been in there for a long time too. I hope I don't lose it. I've got a lot of gems in there.