Divan beds are designed as backless, but they often include screw holes for headboards to be added later. Before purchasing a new headboard, check how far apart its struts need to be in order to fit your bed. Check the back of your bed for bolts or screw holes on either side and measure the distance between them. Larger beds may have more than one hole in a vertical line, but measuring these aren't necessary. You want the horizontal distance from a hole toward one side of the bed to one that's level with it toward the other. This step is not necessary if you plan to mount your headboard to the wall. First, measure from one corner of its head to the other to find out its width. Next, decide if you want the headboard to back any surrounding furniture, such as matching nightstands. If so, measure the distance between the bed and those pieces' farthest sides. Add those figures to your total width. Headboards typically project anywhere up to three inches (7.6 cm) past the corner of the bed's head. If you are backing other furniture as well, apply this rule to their farthest sides from the bed. Measure the length of the bed, from its head to its foot. Also measure its height, including the mattress and any toppers. Use these figures to determine how high above the top of your mattress your headboard should rise. Standard headboards stand roughly 14 inches (35.5 cm) higher than the top of the mattress. Extra tall headboards should be less than the bed's length.

Summary: Measure between screw holes before buying. Determine how wide your headboard should be. Decide how high it should be.

If you experience frequent urination, or worry about certain situations in which urgent urination may be an issue, you may want to invest in a hospital bottle. These devices are built with an angled opening to make it easier to urinate in without spilling. They are also very large and can usually accommodate multiple urinations. Hospital bottles are available online or through licensed medical providers. They can usually be purchased for a relatively low cost. In choosing a bottle, it's important to select a bottle that is an appropriate size. While it's impossible to accurately predict precisely how much urine you will excrete, you can ensure that your bottle is large enough to contain an average person's urine volume. Every person's body is different, but urine volumes generally range between 120 ml and 465 ml, or approximately four to 16 fluid ounces. Choose a bottle that can hold at least 465 ml, or approximately 16 ounces. If the bottle is bigger than that, it shouldn't be a problem. Remember: it's better for a bottle to be too big than too small. The average soda bottle size is 12 fluid ounces, or approximately 355 ml. Larger soda bottles come in 1.75 liter sizes (1750 ml, or approximately 59 fluid ounces), but remember that a soda bottle of any size will have a very narrow opening. Sports drink bottles like Gatorade and Powerade tend to have a wider mouth. For example, Gatorade offers a 20 fluid ounce (approximately 591 ml) bottle designed to have a wide mouth opening. Because of this, many people prefer using sports drinks bottles to urinate into. Whether you're alone in a car or tent, or have others with you, it's important to mark your designated pee bottle to avoid any potential confusion. You can keep it simple by drawing a big "X" on the bottle in permanent marker, or be more explicit in your message (like "Do not drink," for example). Female urination devices, or FUDs, are essentially small funnels built for women to urinate standing up or into a bottle. There are many brands of FUDs, including GoGirl and Freshette, which can be used by women who need to urinate but can't find a toilet. To use an FUD, simply hold the funnel under your vagina, relatively close to your body. Urinate into the device, and angle the narrow end into the mouth of a bottle. You can find an FUD online or at many retail stores, including outdoor gear stores. In addition to the actual bottle, you'll need to bring adequate cleanup supplies. If you're a woman, this will mean bringing toilet paper or tissues to wipe up with. You'll also need soap and water or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, regardless of gender.

Summary: Invest in a hospital bottle. Choose an appropriate size. Mark your bottle. Consider using an FUD. Bring cleanup supplies.

Never point your gun towards a living thing or object and always assume that your shotgun is loaded, even if it isn't. Do not put your finger on the trigger unless you're ready to shoot and always act serious and responsible when holding your gun. If you'd like to learn additional gun safety rules, you can take a safety or shotgun-specific course at a local shooting range. Take shooting classes or practice with an experienced person on a closed course before you go on your first hunt. They will teach you how to properly load, cock, and fire your shotgun, and can instruct you on proper gun safety and hunting etiquette. Start your training on stationary targets before moving onto moving targets. A clay or skeet shooting course will let you practice shooting the gun before you start hunting. These courses fire clay targets into the air to emulate ducks. Practicing at a range will make your more accurate when shooting at the real thing. Labrador Retrievers, English Setters, and English Springer Spaniels are the ideal dog breeds for hunting. You can buy a dog and train it yourself or you can find a breeder or trainer that has pre-trained dogs. To train your dog, you'll have to simulate hunting scenarios and get your dog acclimated to certain commands and the scent of a duck. While having a retrieval dog isn't necessary, it will make getting the birds you down much easier.

Summary: Learn about gun safety. Learn how to shoot a shotgun. Practice shooting at a clay or skeet shooting course. Train your dog to retrieve downed ducks if desired.

Shakespeare frequently used iambic pentameter to write dialogue for the more important characters in his plays. To speak in iambic pentameter, use ten syllable lines broken up into five "foots." In a foot, the first syllable is not stressed, and the second is stressed. For instance, say a phrase like, "at once, we must set forth to seize the day" by emphasizing every second syllable (in this case, every second word.) Trochaic rhythm is the opposite of iambic pentameter in terms of the pattern of pronunciation of syllables. Instead of "feet," trochaic rhythm is comprised of "troches." Deliver ten syllable lines in two syllable "troches," with the first syllable being stressed and the second not being stressed. A perfect example of trochaic rhythm is the line "Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble" from Macbeth. Speak in rhymed couplets to sound distinctively Shakespearean. Shakespeare would group two successive lines with rhyming words at the end of each. Couplets can be grouped together to emphasize the effect (i.e., rhyming last words in lines one and two, with different rhyming words in lines three and four). There are many exemplary rhyming couplets in Romeo and Juliet, such as: "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight. For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
Summary: Speak in iambic pentameter. Use trochaic rhythm. Use rhyming couplets.