Since patch 1.9 there is no maximum level anymore.
If you have a skill at 100 you can make it "Legendary". This resets the skill to 15, gives all perk points invested in that specific tree back. Be warned: You lose all the benefits of having a higher skill level! The advantages of making skills legendary are:
- Difficulty increase, since the enemies don't have their skills reduced.
- You can continue to level up and earn extra skill perks.
It is possible to repeatedly make a skill legendary or to make multiple skills legendary, this allows you to (slowly) unlock all perk points.
Level 81 is the maximum level in Skyrim without making any skill Legendary
There is a linearly constant amount of "experience" required for each level. The formula is simply:
(level-1) * 25 + 100
Where level is your current level.
"Experience" in this case is earned strictly through skill ups. Leveling a skill to X will give you X experience towards your next level. For instance, to level from level 1 to level 2, you require 100 experience. This means you can either raise 5 skills to level 20, one skill to level 21 (assuming it starts at 15), or any other permutation thereof.
Also, and this is important:
There is no soft cap
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Level 81 is just as (relatively) easy to reach as Level 11, it just requires more total experience.
Since all races have +10 to one skill and +5 to five skills, this means there is a total of 88,085 "experience" to earn, and this is constant across the ten races. Level 82 would require 89,100 total experience, and is currently unreachable.
Thus, when your character maxes all of their skills, they will be level 81.
Ive had my items stored in my spouses house for around two weeks and they are still there, so, yes I believe containers in your spouses house are safe. EDIT: They have been there for several months now without loss. Your spouse's house is safe.
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A spouse in Skyrim gives 100 Septims a day. There is no limit to their income, it is only tied to the time passed.
10 days = 1000 Septims is just a good round figure. There is no cap or limitations to monetary income from your spouse, other than the 100 Septims a day limit,which does have an exception...
For example, my wife Ysolda from Whiterun sells everything, has 772 Septims and when I buy something from her I get a portion back in addition to the 100 Septims.
Now if they only let you pass the time in weeks... :)