If you rest in the wilderness facing north any wandering monsters that disturb you will appear in front of you also facing north. This means that they have their back to you initially so if you're sneaky enough you'll have the advantage.
If you rest in the wilderness just outside the town limits and face towards the town, any wandering monsters that disturb you will appear in front of you and within the town limits. If you want to take them on you can step back and they will come to you. If you'd rather avoid them just step forward into the town limits and they will vanish!
When you're on one of those quests to kill a certain number of something in a dungeon, clear out the entrance area enough so that it is safe to rest. If you rest long enough the nasty critters will usually come to you.
If you're high enough level to handle it a fast way to get rich is to take the Fighter's guild quest that requires the 'utmost discretion'. This is a very convoluted quest and quite nasty to complete (check with one of walkthrough sites for full details), but if you can afford to let it run a while the bad guy, Lord K'avar, will send repeated attacks against you. The attacks will come from groups of around 3 humanoids and each group you encounter will carry their own inventory items plus the inventory items of the groups that have gone before. If you can take the heat for a few days the benefits can become considerable.
Similarly, the guard the mage/item quest can be more lucrative at higher levels than it appears. There are usually 3 or 4 ruffians who turn up and each one seems to carry the inventory of the one before plus some more. If the items are of sufficient quality the value can add up, unfortunately you only get the one bunch of bad guys.
If you ready a spell and then abort it using the 'E' key, the mana used is returned to your store but it is still counted as a use of the skill. As a result you can 'train' your magic skills by creating cheap to cast, touch range spells in the spellmaker and casting and then aborting them repeatedly. For some reason this does not work with the Alteration skill. For this one you need to create a cheap caster range spell and actually cast it over and over. Slowfalling is a good spell for this. (More magic training details)
When making a 'create item' spell in the spell maker if you use 'previous' to back up to the messed up icon in the list and assign it to the spell, it seems to allow you to cast the spell again immediately after first casting. Beware, however, as use of this icon can cause game crashes. This technique can be used on other spells too - for instance, on a strength boosting spell casting it again will raise the STR higher instead of extending the duration.
Magic items can only be repaired by creating a magic item that has the repair object effect. Multiple items of this type are recommended for best effect. To repair, make sure your repair items are equipped and any items to be repaired are preferably unequipped but still on your character, and then rest. Unequipping is particularly important for 'when worn' items and if you have a lot of items to fix or they are very worn you may have to rest for several days! Resting while fast travelling does not count here. 
When you reach 100% in one of your primary, major or minor skills you will be declared a 'Master'of that skill. Once this happens, advancement in any other skill is halted at 95% as the game limits them to 5% below the mastered skill. This limitation can be overcome by creating an item to raise the mastered skill above 100%, which will allow the other skills to progress as normal.
If you press 'E' to abort after activating a magic item with a combat spell, it will give you back as much magicka as the last spell you cast cost you. This can be a lifesaver when you're desperately short of magicka in a dungeon.
The Alt F11 fix for the void can be used to get back to a dungeon entrance. If you save your game, reload the game and then immediately hit Alt F11 before moving you will be returned to the entrance. This is because following the load the game has no other point of reference to which to return you.
There are 2 ways of gaining access to your wagon while in the depths of a dungeon. The first involves visiting a shop before leaving for the dungeon. Select the sell option to open your inventory and then select wagon. Exit your inventory and continue to the dungeon and everything you pick up should go straight into the wagon. This situation will continue until you select a different section of your inventory or until you reload the game, so ensure you have all your preferred items equipped beforehand. A second variation available to magic users is to create a cheap identify spell. Cast the spell, select the wagon from your inventory screen and then exit. This works in the same way as visiting a store except it can be more convenient to cast an identify. Unfortunately this still won't work inside the dungeon.
For the thiefly types wanting a little pilfering a safer option is to wait around in the store until closing time. After the store closes, save the game and reload. The shopkeeper will be gone but you can still take the goods from the shelves. Each save and reload should restock the shelves.
When generating a character you can arrange to gain multiple inventory items with which to start. After going through answering questions and selecting the ebony dagger etc, if you choose to restart the character the game seems to remember the items you were allocated the first time and add on the items you get the second time through. This way you can find yourself in Privateer's Hold with 2 or more ebony daggers!
The best get rich quick scheme at lower levels seems to be a visit to the Rusty Ogre Lodge in Daggerfall. Go upstairs and save the game. Reload the game and the cupboards when searched will contain some daedric items even if you're a low level character. It may be prudent to have cast a teleport anchor some distance away though as pilfering through these private belongings will bring on a horde of guards just waiting for you to go back downstairs!
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