@New Guy: I currently use a total of about 75 mods at the moment. A Quality World Map with Roads, Colored Map Markers, Apocalypse Spell Package, Arrow Tweaks, Balanced Magic, Bandolier Bags and Pounces, Be a Better Mage with Unique Spells, Powerful Shouts, Better Dynamic Snow, Blackreach Railroad, Calientes Female Body, Cloaks of Skyrim, Combine Potions, Complete Crafting Overhaul, Craftable Soulgems, Craftable Staves, Crimson Tides, Dawnstar Sanctuary Overhual, Deadly Dragons, Deadly Dragons Armory, Deadly Dragon Spells, Deadly Spell Inpacts, Dovahkiin Hideout, Dovahkriid - The Dragon Lords, Dragonbone Weapons, Dragonsreach Hideout, Duel - Combat Realism, Economics of Skyrim, Enchanting Freedom, Enhanded Distant Terrain, Enhanced Night Skyrim, Expanded Winterhold Destruction Ruins, Faster Mining, Fight or Fly, Game Setting Customizer, Glowing Ore Veins, Hi-Res Legible Road Signs, KenMOD - Lockpick Pro, KenMod - Time on Loading Screen, Killmove Plus, Lanterns of Skyrim - Around Cities, Lanterns of Skyrim - Bridges, Localized Thieves Guild Jobs, Lush Grass, Lush Trees, Manny Outpost, Midas Magic, Moonpath to Elsweyr, More Craftables, More Dragon Loot, No Boring Sleep, Phenderix Magic Evolved, Player Home Map Markers, Possessive Corpses, Ragged Flagon Secret Entrance, Real Ice, Realistic Smoke and Embers, Sanctuary Cleanup, Sexy Boats, Sexy Riften, Sexy Solitude, Sexy Villages and Towns, Sexy Whiterun, Sexy Windhelm, Sexy Winterhold College, Skyrim -Community- Uncapper, Skyrim Sunglare, SkyUI, Smithing Perks Overhaul, Static Mesh Improvement, The Asteria, The Grytewake Legend, The Paarhumax Fix, Unofficial Skyrim Patch, Vanilla Mannequin Script Fix, W.A.T.E.R. WARZONES, Weapons and Armor Fixes, XCE - Xenius Character Enhancements.
XD Quite a list, and that's just what's listed on my Nexus Mod Manager. Hope that helps! XD
P.S.: Note that I am NOT using the Skyrim High Resolution texture pack. It interferes with several of the before mentioned mods, and I found it rather redundant when using the texture fixes and whatnot I had listed. Just wanted to make a note of it!