Sarah Lawrence for Vox

Below Deck fan favorite Courtney Skippon gave us tips on how to survive whatever winter throws at us.

Winter will suck. We gathered some of Vox’s coziest minds to help you make it suck less.

When New York City went into a shelter-in-place directive in March 2020, I learned that I am impossibly terrible at living in a confined space. New Yorkers don’t expect to spend 23 hours of their days inside their apartments, and doing that in 750 square feet from March until the end of April is not something I recommend. I went stir crazy. I was anxious about my toilet paper. I was irritable. I was sure I contracted coronavirus at least six separate times, all at night, all after I went to the grocery to buy some fruit. I was, I’m guessing, not