25 Things That Were Way Easier Than People Thought They Would Be

Being an adult is hard. One day, you’re crawling through life, usually hungover, with no greater responsibilities than a mid-term every now and then, and the next, you’re expected to know how to buy a car, get a passport, clean a ceiling fan and myriad other endless tasks. It’s enough to make you hide under your blankie and demand a lawyer that you don’t know how to hire.

But sometimes, you might overcome one of those largely fear-based hurdles only to find that it wasn’t that hard after all. Through a combination of YouTube, random old men at Home Depot and the time-tested strategy of poking the problem with a stick, you can figure out just about anything. That’s why user UnoAboveAll asked r/AskReddit, “What was your ‘it can’t be that easy / it was that easy’ moment in your life?”