Coming back to a side quest you missed

I don't think the chicken farmer knows what a thousand means. He probably thinks it just means many.

To put that into perspective, the oldest known permanent human settlement is about 25,000 years old. The Bronze Age wouldn’t start for another ~20,000 years, so they wasn’t any metal working.

I wonder if game designers realize that this actually fucks people like me up, if i get an item that is said to have sentimental value i'm going to put that in a chest and ignore it because i don't have the heart to sell it and have it just get atomized when the vendor's inventory refreshes.

I love Enderal for actually letting you hand over some items you get early on, you can totally just ignore them or sell them but if you're like me and have the instinct to keep sentimental items then you get to be absolutely flabberghasted when you realize the game accounts for this.

At least Skyrim loot is usually leveled, so even if you do it a long time into the game, you'll still get something useful.

Though it does make for unusual rewards when someone says "found this in the dirt under me chicken shed" and it's this big daedric battleaxe.