It can be - if you do a STR/Airbnb/Hotel, the pots and pans should come with the place and they're not yours. Many hotels do include the above, especially mid to higher end ones.

If you're renting on a standard long term lease - not short term rental, and it isn't furnished with them, yes they're yours because you bought them.

It's up to you what you want to "count", but toiletries are like petty cash. Pots/Pans can have realistic value, and the rabbit hole for them goes deep from cheap iron, stainless steel, ikea standard purchase, etc.

The idea is to take a break, catalog what you have and go from there. You can catalog 1000+ items and just get rid of ten but then you know "oh just ten items were fluff" vs not knowing or getting rid of 200.

The idea is the exercise.

Well you see I have a mortgage and if I walked away they would take everything within the house thus I don't own anything other than the clothing on my back.

Same with the cars.

I make a distinction between things I have sentimental attachment to, important or expensive to replace vs things that are not.

I wouldn’t count all my dinner plates and cutlery as “possessions” as such, but I’d count my good knives.