What project(s) have you started and found to be bigger than you expected?
The wife decided it was time to paint the hallway. This required emptying the hallway. Which was a task she expected.
She then needed to remove the popcorn covering on the walls, which was much larger than she expected. Even though I bought a power wall sander for her.
The result was no more popcorn/textured walls. But there were dings, scrapes, and other damage on the walls. We could have just painted over and it would have been ok.
I decided we needed to apply a skim coat. Which meant I had to learn that what I wanted to do was a skim coat. Then I had to learn how to do it. Then try and fail. Then try again and fail differently. Something about having just the right amount of water in the plaster.
I have 3/4s of one wall completely ready for the primer. The the rest of that wall and 2.5 other walls are ready to be sanded, and I still need to apply the skim coat on about 60 sq ft of wall.
Damn that is a skill I do not have.