my dad is addicted to collecting vinyls. AIO?
My Dad's been collecting vinyls for a while, but it's gotten worse the last 1-2 months. My brother picked up some rare records for $1 each, and that finally pushed my dad to buy a nice record player. Since then, he's been buying non-stop. He has them in crates by his desk, he cleared out a closet in our hallway just to have somewhere to put his records, he keeps them under our TV, under his record stand, and now he has a crate and 3 stacks of records on our kitchen table. He spends hours almost every day cleaning his records. He told me on April 27th, after him and I drove an hour to pick up records (before I really realized that he's addicted to it), that he was going to stop. He's bought ~100 since then (probably more). He buys them for a couple of bucks each and keeps insisting that he's going to sell the ones he doesn't want, but he keeps buying more and hasn't sold any. He has hundreds of vinyls all over the place.
He recently discovered the app whatnot. He'll bid during baseball games and conversations with my mom and I. He works at home a few days a week, and he'll bid on records while he's working. He's bidding on them as I type this. I told him a few days ago that he's starting to sound like a drug addict with the "Yeah, I'll stop soon," shit. He agreed and laughed it off, but he hasn't stopped. It's not funny. Last night, I said goodnight to him, but he was busy watching a vinyl livestream on whatnot and ignored me. My mom had to tell him twice to say goodnight to me. She told him that's he's acting like he's in another world, but he literally does not care. All he did was send me a text.
I wanted to have cereal at the kitchen table this morning, but he was sitting there cleaning his records, and his stacks and his crate take up the entire table. I'd get yelled at if I asked him to move them. In fact, a few minutes ago, I did ask him to stop buying records until he's able to clean them all and find a place for them, and he flat out told me, "No." That's what prompted me to type this all out. I asked why he won't stop, and he said, "Because." I told him that he's acting childish, and then he said that I'm acting childish. I asked him to explain how I was being childish, and he told me to shut up and that he has cleaner that'll be arriving on Monday. Apparently, he'll be cleaning EVERY record and clearing everything off the table on Monday. He's not a man of his word. I know for a fact that these records will be on the table for weeks. We don't have blinds on our kitchen window, and anyone walking by can look into the house and see the mess he's made. It's frustrating and embarrassing.
My Mom acknowledged that he has a problem, and I told her that we need to have some sort of intervention because clearly he's going through some sort of crisis. He's never been the type of person who cares about what anyone else thinks. He hasn't listened yet, so why would he listen if we sat down and talked to him? I don't know what to do, but I'm getting sick of him showing me his new records and having to pretend like it's not a problem.