Women who were brought up in Soviet times know how to save and what a deficit is. Therefore, such housewives will not have any questions if a sumptuous table needs to be set from a minimum amount of products.
They also don't have problems in everyday life. The thing is that people of that time know that you can get by with improvised means to eliminate any problem.
Many habits have become so ingrained that modern housewives are still faithful to them even now, when everything has changed. However, it is already possible to get rid of such habits.
This is about a situation when things do not "disappear", but are used until the last. For example, when an old T-shirt becomes a rag and so on. However, it is now easy to buy special rags for washing floors. They are inexpensive and also perform their function perfectly.
One habit from the USSR is to cover it with oilcloth to save the tablecloth from stains. As a result, the kitchen is deprived of coziness and beauty. It is not very pleasant to dine at such a table, and guests are unlikely to want to return.
They should be reasonable. After all, every product has its own expiration date.