I have not uninstalled any mods during the current play through and again my save is bloated as I have gone through the whole game with a 17mb save while i am currently at 18mb about 1/5th of the way through. another good tool to use against save bloat is the unofficial skyrim patch because that has dealt with the issue of left behind weapons (which are now always attached to the npc that dropped them) and nirnroot glows that pile up, never get deleted and become blinding. I know that the issue I am having is caused by mods because of my previous game size being so small but how do I isolate the mod without having to uninstall all of them, add them back in one by one and trying to decide if my game is bloating less? One concern of mine is the combination of ASIS and convenient horses. When I run by a bunch of bandits and it takes a moment to load could that be the issue? also, there are some mods i have that have dirty edits. I have had most of them through that last play through though so I don't think that could be the issue. -BTW your helpfulness is awesome. it's not often that people give of their own time to helping others without anything in return. -thank you