Help! My roommate keeps online shopping for LEGO. He’s become so addicted to the feeling of getting LEGO sets (and not even building them) that he just keeps buying them. When I asked about his need for LEGO, he became defensive about the LEGO hoarding not being an addiction.
He looked me dead in the eyes and said, “Every LEGO set I buy brings me a second of joy … I need those seconds of joy to survive.”
It’s come to a point where he’s sacrificing both his mental and financial wellbeing to get his hands on any and all LEGO sets he can find. I’ve even walked in on him curled up on the floor on a Lego magic circle, trying to sacrifice his soul for more LEGO. Though, it seems like Lego these days are too expensive. Still, he’s already bought so many LEGO sets in the first 34 days of school that it’s impossible to walk around in the room. Even moving an inch means hearing the falling LEGO pieces sound effect twenty times.
Each night, I have to swim into bed. Each morning, I have to swim out of bed. Some mornings, I get lost in the pool of those little plastic building blocks. If it wasn’t for my hero, Cat Crawford, fishing me out of those Danish bricks, I would’ve drowned or even worse: eaten macroplastics. If you’re reading this message, there may still be time to save me from this situation. Just donate money to my GoFundMe to remove the LEGO bricks from my room. One dollar means one hundred fewer LEGO bricks. Even a couple cents go a long way for me to get even more LE — get rid of these pesky LEGO bricks.
