ArchDigest/Clever: How to prepare for another coronavirus winter when you live alone
Oct. 29
The first time COVID-19 forced me to hunker down in my 345-square-foot apartment in Paris—a city that imposed one of the strictest lockdowns in the world earlier this year—I gained 10 pounds in the span of a few short months, developed a strange (non-virus-related) skin rash and irregular, erratic sleep patterns.
I swung the first lockdown solo in my modest apartment: no garden, no balcony, no courtyard, little sunlight, and no Netflix. Like everyone else, I was ill-prepared then. But not this time.
No, in anticipation of what will surely be a long, dark, cold coronavirus winter (we learned yesterday that all of France will be going under our second lockdown until at least December 1), I’ve hatched a personal survival strategy centered on keeping warm, keeping healthy, and staying sane, all on the cheap. You could call it a survival guide for singletons with small budgets living in small spaces.
