In my experience so far, lockpicks are a bit rare to come by naturally, so I suggest buying lockpicks whenever you can from vendors, I've encountered one or two chests I had to abandon because I didn't have any lockpicks. On normal I have a lot of money still, I haven't bought anything except potions and even then I probably don't need to because I've never gone below 10, all my armour and weapons came from loot, I'm just missing a unique chest piece then I'll have everything unique (aside from my 2nd loadout of wand/grimoire).
I'm stashing any unique stuff in my storage, I can't bring myself to scrap or sell any of that, Lol.
Also I feel like the weight limit is pretty generous, I've only encountered encumbrance twice, I scrap most of the common shit now anyway and you can store unique stuff to your camp from wherever you are, don't need to go back to the camp, speaking of the camp, I love the cosiness of it, companions chilling there and chatting to each other.







