Hide it all. Creative storage

I was browsing the Crate & Barrel website today. Someone gave me a gift certificate…
This caption intrigued me: “Hide it all. Creative storage”.
I have a question:
What is “all” and if I need to hide it, why do I have it in the first place?
I have spent the past 5 years trying to jettison the idea of “possessions” from my life. I find that it is a prison many of us create. Instead of us possessing things, things possess us. This informs many choices: where we live, who we interact with, what we trust, what we do not, how we consume, etc.
Think about it.
You have a lot of stuff. You paid a lot of money for it. It makes you feel a certain way when it is around. You are distrustful of certain people who might steal it. You choose to live in a place where those people do not (or are not allowed to) go. You spend money on systems that protect your stuff: alarms, insurance, storage. You work long hours to afford more stuff. You abstain from buying a bit of stuff so you can invest money that earns more interest, thereby increasing your ability to buy stuff. Your kids want stuff. You work even longer hours to give them stuff. Your wife likes stuff. You work and she does not so that she can stay home and manage your stuff and the stuff belonging to the kids you have who keep demanding more stuff. She is stressed out every day from cleaning/organizing/arranging/using stuff. She shops for more because it makes her feel better. She throws stuff away because more stuff shows up in her stuff store that encourages her to buy more stuff to replace the stuff that is “clearly worn out” or “out of fashion”.
Really?
Am I stuff-less? No. But am I imprisoned by my stuff? Not really. Steal anything I own and I’ve been trying to do the following:
-get in touch with how the theft makes me feel
-dissect what those feelings are really about.
Security?
Self-esteem?
Love?
Emptiness?
Sentimentality?
Money “lost’?
Money “spent”?
Money “well-spent”?
Money “wasted”?
-do the feelings have to do with the thing I lost, or what that thing represented?
-is there any way to feel better without “replacing” it?
-is it even about the thing at all?
-if I get another/more/different stuff, do I build a prison or do I set myself free?
So yeah. I will not go to Crate & Barrel and buy something that hides my stuff. Because why would we want our lives to be made of things we keep hidden and tucked away? What if everything we had we were proud of and not afraid to share?
The very idea of containers and containment saddens me. Wouldn’t it be great if we all cultivated the good stuff thereby reducing the need to go around containing it all the time?
That would rock.