Neither of my daughters have hope chests because they didn't want them. My eldest has her own condo - so she is using what she has now. (She is 32 and not yet married and storage is minimal.) My younger daughter, lives with us right now because she is working full time and went back to school full time to get her Master's. She is 29 and when she was living with her friends they used all that the items they had and no idea what storage is. And I have 2 nieces that are kind of in the same boat.
So I make the items and let them decide what to do with them. We have a rather small family, so it give me an excuse to make more.
My sisters and I each had a Hope Chest, mine currently stores the family silver service, my daughters' baby quilts and my stamp albums. My eldest sister is no longer with us, so her eldest daughter has hers and my other sister had 2 boys and uses hers like I use mine.