enlightenment is realizing you can put all the gold bars in a corpse and carry that to the exit.

Pretty much the only reason to get the Long Haul perk is because of that damn gold weighing 35lbs, or 1295lbs total, while the game's max carry weight is 375lbs. However, you'll never run out of money if you take them all, because they are worth a combined total of 389,943 caps, at 10,539 caps each.

in other words: