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Cut the glass panel. Gently and slowly apply pressure but move the glass to create a gap. Eureka or prepare to be disappointed and have your breakfast out of the carton!
Get a quilt/blanket ask someone to hold it for you (hold it like it is supposed to be a trampoline)and open the cupboard the plates will fall on the blanket/quilt.
Put blankets (layers) all over the ground and whatever is under that shelf, open and hope for the best!
Considering the photo has gone viral by now, keep it that way.
Post your address, charge $5 for people to see it and take a selfie with it. Use the image on shirts (use that Schrodinger idea) and sell them. Start a gofundme page with the goal of buying new china, and when you have enough money, broadcast live the moment you open the door and try (unsuccessfully) to save the dishes.
Making the internet a better place, one dish at a time.
I'd like to have a better picture of the cabinet. Does the door swing open or slide open? I need wider view.
Run back in time save some one from being murdered and create a flash-point universe where the plates never tipped over.
Use glass cutter on right side window big enough to get your hand . Be sure to sand off possible jagged areas. Slowly insert your hand through the whole. Then slowly begin to disassemble the fallen stack.
In order to save those plates you must have
110g/4oz butter or margarine, softened at room temperature
110g/4oz caster sugar
2 free-range eggs, lightly beaten
1 tsp vanilla extract
110g/4oz self-raising flour
1-2 tbsp milk
For the buttercream icing
140g/5oz butter, softened
280g/10oz icing sugar
1-2 tbsp milk
a few drops food colouring
Then go make cupcakes. Cupcakes solves eveything.
Break the glass on the right. It will be cheaper, to replace the glass for the cabinet than the dishes- which looks to be old porcelain and not easily replaced.
Open the cupboard slightly. As it starts to slip, have ready and bowl with a towel inside to catch it. Have pillows on floor to catch stragglers. Try to keep plates from falling onto the wood.
Place a mattress or heaps of blankets or sth soft under the cupboard and then try opening?
Don't helicopter parent those plates. Open the cupboard and let them fall. That is the only way they will learn not to goof around in the cupboard.
Pull the cabinet out and lay it down (with help) then open the door, they wont fall out and youll be able to take them out
Take a bath towel and place something heavy on one end on the counter and u hold the other end, open the door and u might have 1-3 broken but u should be ok.
If possible, unscrew the door handle at the bottom left and remove it slowly.( No vibrations) You should have a small hole to work with. Get some cans of sticky string. Spray the bottom area to form a bed or a net and try and form a lattice structure around or in front of the bowls still on shelf. Then open the door slowly.
Simple solution... I call it THE HARRY POTTER SOLUTION!!!......
First, call harry potter, show him the situation, have him do that spell that makes stuff float in air(wingardium levio'sa)as you slowly open the compartment, your property will be saved, you thank him for this, inform Dumbledor about this......... 50 points to Griffindor!!!......... Wooooohooo!!!
Pack your things and travel to the place where Kung fu was born. Become the greatest Kung fu fighter there ever was. Reveal the answers in the sacred bamboo tree that will teach you how to become a ninja! When you have achieved the master level of ninja you will be fast enough to retrieve the plates safely. Good luck grasshopper.
you can put a towel or something soft below so it would avoid the crash by cushioning the fall.
Just put a matress or something on the floor and open the door, they wont broke that way.
Get one of those diamond tipped glass cutters you see thieves using in movies all the time. Cut a hole in the glass below the dish then stick your hand in and gradually move bowls to safety.
Pry off the wood between the panes of Glass on the other side of the cabinet. so you can reach in and pull the glass China out safely. then you can take and glue the wood back onto the glass after you put the glass back in the frame. That's the simplest and easiest way to do it without destroying the cabinet or breaking the glass. Plus you save the China from dropping to the floor. That is my answer to the solution
Fly your cabinet in a space shuttle to the moon with you, the plates will float and you're done.
Have one person hold a blanket to catch them and whatever ones break glue them back together paint the cracks with gold paint.
Bring the whole thing in space (ISS) where gravity is zero. when you get there open the cabinet at will.
Take beading off glass above, remove glass and remove plates. refit glass and beading then paint. Good luck
Cut the glass out of the pane, hold the glass in place as you open the door. Then use the spare hand to catch the bowls.
If there truly expensive and valuable, smash the glass above them and move them carefully!
Travel to greece and live until you become a resident, then its all cool if you smash a few plates
Just leave it there, its probably nice chine noones allowed to use anyway
1. Build a fort of pillows next to the cupboard
2. Forget the plates, you have a pillow fort.
Open it. Get a bit of gold to melt. Pretend you are Japanese and put them back together. More beautiful. Kintsugi - Wikipedia.
fill a bucket or a tub with water, hold it under the cabinet and the water will break the fall without breaking the dishes.
takeoff the top glass pieces and pull the bowls together then grab all of them at the same time and your good to go
It's not impossible and no big deal. Go ahead, open it. It's okay if you break some but try to save the other plates.
Ignore the problem like the rest of the world and try a temporary solution instead. Maybe cups as bowls.
Undo the hinges that holds that door on, tilt the top towards you and it will catch em all safely
Have you seen Mission Impossible 1 through 5? Have you seen Honey I Shrunk the Kids 1 through 3? We shrink Tom Cruise, drill a microscopic hole at the top of the cupboard, and he repels down to the plates at a speed never seen before. He then shoots his a "Blow Up" ray from Honey I Blew Up the Kid, that was shrunken down with him, on a shrunken large bed pillow that he placed on the cupboard shelf below the plates as he makes a daring escape.
Slide a thin piece of wood in like the kind of wood that is usually nailed to the back of a book shelf.
Looks like a sliding door.
Can you slide it a little to get your hand in?
(Nerd note: are these Schodingers Plates?)
Open the door a little bit, slip your hand to hold the falling ones, and then open the door wider with the other hand.
It looks like they are bowls, not flat plates; moving the door a little bit probably won't make them fall. You can see they are kind of stacked, even the falling ones.
Have a drum with wheels if available filled with water ready next to the door. Then one person will open the door and atleast 2 to 3 persons will push the drum to catch the plates.
Make a hole in the top that won't usually be seen and start adding something soft like packing peanuts or cotton pillow stuffing. Also, don't stack stuff as high that it's likely to fall over
grab a pillow or 2, depending on how fast you or your families reflexes are, you would be able to open the door and catch them, due to gravity, they will fall at 9.8 m/sec. You should be able to slide the pillow under em and catch em. But start below the place, not right at it. I say probably 3-5 inches from it.
mmmm.... took a last look at those plate and take a picture this maybe the last time it happen and took a video on removing it from the carboard.... it priceless....lol
Looks like a slide door so just open it enough to get ya hand in there the glass"should" slide right over the plate no worrys
Get a glass cutter knife and cut right hand side of the glass .Wear glove and carefully remove all plate,10 minutes and the problem solved..
Have one person hold the glass door steady. Unscrew the hinges, then slowly slide the glass UP, while using it to prevent the dishes from falling out of their position. So you're pushing the glass into the bowls, and also sliding it up. Once the door is up, the second person comes in with a large folded towel or blanket, continuing to slowly work up until the entire pile of dishes is supported and buffered by the towel beside and below. Put the glass down, remove plates, reattach the hinges.
Place a bed of foam and soft shit everywhere you can around the area. Make sure you don't block the path of the door. Then open the door as fast as possible and with cat like reflexes prevent as much damage as possible
Did you forget rule number 1? "Always carry a towel."
Hang the towel underneath the cupboard with some kind of strong adhesive, and then do like firemen do and let them fall into the towel whilst you hold the other end so it makes a soft landing.
Or go consult with Deep Thought for a definitive answer.
Employ Samuel. L. Jackson to shout "motha fuker" at them, they should then become terrified and juat right back into order.
Get about four big, beautiful, strong men in to lift that thing very carefully on to it's back, open the door on the right first and then put the kettle on for the men. And take those plates out and put them in the bold corner. Tut.
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Stick something stiff through the bottom to hold in place while opening like a long ruler
Travel to parallel universe where this never happened, then take that cupboard back to this universe. Problem solved!!!
Note: you may have to arrange warp drive spaceship!!!
Put a tub of water under the cupboard, for the plates to fall into and hopefully some will be saved 😀
Buy $10 fill for pillow and spread thickly on top of couch cushions you took from couch, so couch cushions, then pillow soft fill on top to maximize soft landing. Put plush anywhere on the ground you think plates might hit.
Put on the floor like a big bean bag chair or blow up mattress and after u open the door quickly push the mattress closer so that everything will fall on top of it
You need to see a picture of the entire unit before you arrive at a solution . From this photo it seems that you cannot open the door by swinging it open . You may need to removed hinges and slide it so that your hand can reach in to support the dishes or remove carefully the critical ones .
Put a purple mattress under the cupboard and open the the door.....the eggs didn't break, so the plates shouldn't brake either.
Open the door just a crack and shove a long thing object in there, like a back scratcher or a broom handle, something to help "hold" the plates up a bit so you can ease the door open a bit more. Then someone with small hands and a small arm can reach in.
Make a hole by the glass cutting tool in one of the top square , get the plates out one by one then chang the glass ☺
okay. Place a camera filming the room, wear a cat costume and have someone wear a mouse costume. Now, the mouse opens the cupboard and the cat frantically and fictionally catches every single dish in a stack. And wahlah you have a Tom and Jerry tribute sketch, it will most likely go viral.
Get that nine years old "hero" kid that caught his baby brother to catch them all apparently he is some kind of miracle from God, while his mom is a dumb ass for not securing the child in the first place...but I digress.
Your options are limited but if the China is irreplaceable the cheapest and most practical way is to go in from the adjacent cupboard. Cut a nice square hand hole, start with a drill bit until you are able to get the blade of a jigsaw in there then cut out a square big enough to get your hands through. Once they have been sorted you can basically replace the square and use wood filler and sand paper to fill the cut like it never happened. A little coat of paint and no one would ever know.
Hire a student from The Master Yoda School of Telekinetic Arts, they will use The Force on that Dark Lord cup dabbaccle for cheap!
Slide the cupboard out from the wall, then either open or cut the back off and reach in and grab them gently,, make sure someone is at the front to keep the door closed, you will need to secure the one closest to the front first pulling the stack back
Grab every pillow and cushion in the house and lay them on your counter and surrounding floor..open the door and hope for the best!
Put a cushion on the floor so that if ever the plates gonna start falling atleast those would'nt break :D
Find some Jewish friends and perform a wedding ceremony and when they are pronounced husband and wife, have the rabbi open the cupboard and everyone yells Mazeltov!!
Open very slowly with a towel or soft blanket to catch and correct. Might chip one or two but at least you won't be stepping on shards for weeks.
Hire Hillary to just "delete" them, like her emails...cause at this point, "What does it matter?
If the plates are too precious to break, see if you can shift out the shelf. Tilt it down to the floor or to a sixty degree angle. Get a ladder to open the shelf. Take out all plates or realign them.
If the plates ain't precious put a container with some fabric inside and place below the shelf to open and let all the plates fall.
May all be well.
Place a bunch of pillows at the base of the cabinet, as far out as four feet. Open cabinet rapidly so that they fall a little outward and land on the pillows.
Try to contact Invisible girl from the Fantastic 4, tell her to go to invisible mode, go inside the cabinet and restack the bowls!
Find the nearest university and walk around with a Trump shirt on. Wander home slowly, allowing professional protesters to follow you. By the time they're finished demonstrating, all in the name of a kinder, more accepting nation, those dishes will be the least of your worries.
Find the nearest university and walk around with a Trump shirt on. Wander home slowly, allowing professional protesters to follow you. By the time they're finished demonstrating, all in the name of a kinder, more accepting nation, those dishes will be the least of your worries.
Cut a round hole in the glass smaller than the front bowl, stick your hand in and push the bowls up and fix them before opening the doors
In accient china they belived that a cracked item gave it more value and a story to the object so they glued the ceramics with gold.
Solution: buy gold.
Ask your son or daughter do they want the training to be a ninja and start the training by opening the cupboard 💪💪
If the cabinet doors can be removed, unscrew the hinges while someone holds it firmly in place. Then slowly slide it down a few inches so that someone can reach in from the top and grab the plates.
Hello Mom! Just open and let all fall! It's Black Friday! Go grab some new ones! And a new cabinet too!
Have someone crack open the cupboard door just enogh to slide a thin sheet of wood up in between the bowls and glass. Then you will have to have a third person ready to react when the person holding the door opens it fast while the other person is still holding the board. The new person will have to react fast and press the card board in against the falling dishes to prevent them falling. I don't think they can all be saved but stranger things have happend.
Film cabinet from various angles while playing "black Beatles" by Rae sremmurd in the background. Submit as mannequin challenge
remove the glass panel to the right as you're facing the display case so that you can pull everything out one piece at a time and then you can open the door with that everything falling out and breaking
fill your cupboard full of cotton balls and put lots of pillows on on the counter and floor
Fill cubbord with water then freeze said water. Then use an ice pick and carefully extract plates. You're welcome
The cabinets look like they are made of wood. Okay, either get a lot of termites, or a lot of fire, and eventually there will grow a hole big enough to adjust the bowls through. I mean, either that, or kill yourself, then as a ghost, reach through the glass, and fix the bowls, then unkill yourself.
If im not wrong this is a sliding door. Just open up a little and get your hands in to slowly shift it back to position or get a stick to secure them before open the door wide.
Use suction cups and a glass cutter to remove the top panes of glass making sure to hold the cabinet shut tight to keep the dishes in place. Maintain a tight hold on cabinet doors and remove the dishes or restack carefully using both hands to maintain firm control. If there is room another individual could assist.
Slide the cupboard door to the right just enough to get a hand inside and grab the plates before they fall. Simple :)
Carefully lean the cubbord back (slow enough as not to break the plates) then just open it when its on its back, take en all out and put it all back. Wah la
The Blamer - Paint the windows of the cupboard so your kids or your husband cannot see the plates or the insides of the cupboard.
Ask them to get you a plate.
Blame it on them.
Carve a hole on the right glass to the size that can fit your hand. Slowly pick up the antiques one at a time until all is done! The glass is cheaper to replace than the antiques 😎
It is a sliding door. Just slide the door slowly and grab the falling plates. You just need a few extra hands.
Take hinges off cabinet. Once removed slowly and without moving any further away from
Cabinet shelves move the cabinet door up will
Probably need to tilt as moved up to plates so this until all plates are back on shelf. And not going to fall.
Or remove one glass window if it's not one whole
Peice of glass.
Go to your local NASA an ask them kindly to turn the gravity off in your house for a few minutes
Find the anti-gravity switch at the side of the cabinet and turn it off. The plates will now be floating about randomly. Remove them to a safe place and turn the switch back on. Too easy!
Stiff newspaper though a crack in the door to fill bottom shelf..until packed. Attach fabric with duct tape to bottom of cupboard door and cabinet (allow 3 inches slack) to catch what your hand cant and the newspaper cant cushion when you open the door enough to insert your hand
Just start irrelevant arguments with it for years then cheat on it ! After that you blame your actions on the plates . Isn't that how you women fix a marriage?
Look at it this way, if you had a cat, most of your fragile porcelain would be broken already anways.
Go into a parallel dimension where everything's the same except the plates, kill your other self, Problem solved!
Spray some winded on it. That stuff fixes everything!
*windex Stupid autocorrect. Maybe you should just misspell "dishes" on the door of the cabinet and wait for your iPhone to fix it.
Remove the cupboard door from the hinge while someone else holds it in place against the plates. Slide the door right and/or up until you have room to put you hand in and grab it.
Ask Doctor Strange for help! Kidding. Try putting some pillows or foams below the expected landing area. solved
Rent your house out and let the tenant take the blame when they try to open the cabinet and break the plates
I'd say break the glass surrounding it and carefully remove the plates. the glass can easily and cheaply be replaced and it would save them from smashing to the ground as soon as you open it.
Get a inflatable swim mattress. Open the door a crack, just wide enough to push one end of mattress in. Slowly inflate mattress while someone presses door to keep it from opening to soon. As the mattress inflates, it will catch the plates.
Floss duct tape behind the door to run the height of the cabinet from top to bottom. repeat until you've created prison bars for the dishes. Tape will hold the dishes in when you open the cabinet and get your hand in there.
Get a diamond tipped cutter, cut a hole big enough to fit someone's hand directly under the plate lapping on the glass, then open a big hole the top section of the glass, let someone teach in through the small hole under to hold firm the one lowest then from the big opening on top reach in and pick the rest out one at a time... DONE 🍻
Would need to see larger pic showing whole door
But
If possible by moving doors or by the way they are built
You can slide a piece of cardboard in there slid between window and bowls
Keep pressure as you slide door open
But should be able to save all if done correctly
carpenters solution:
open the other side of the cupboard, or the cupboard next to this one, cut a small hole in the wood dividing board, put your hand through the hole, push the bowls or plates or w.e back into place.
Order a pizza. In the special requests, write down your problem, and spexify you want then to solve it.
Unless its nails to the wall, gentle tip it back enough to counteract gravity.That's my first thought....
Get a blanket or towel for below the door and open it up and it won't break
Alrernatively you can use a shit ton of bubble wrap
Don't.. just leave it alone.. walk away.. and pretend like it never existed in the first place.. and when someone else goes to the cubbard, blame it on the . So now it's their problem.
Get bit by a radioactive spider, gain super reflexes and web shooters, open the door and sling some web.
It's a sliding door. So slide the door open slowly until you can reach in and correct the the problem.
Go see a Psychic and ask what will happen if you open the door, do the opposite Becuase we all know psychics are a load of horse manure
Put a mattress on the floor in front of the cabinet. Open the cabinet a little to let one out and hurry and close. Repeat until they've all fell on the mattress one at a time.
I was gonna say open the door just enough to get your arm in but it looks as if There's no way to even open that door a little. I would bust out the glad beside those plates and get them that way. You can replace the piece of glass. If they are antique plates or where a family heirloom you can't replace them.
Open the left door, reach in, and move the plates to safety befor opening the door on the right.
peanut butter or windex or vinegar (the trifecta of home remedies) should work in the correct combination. The execution might require a grandmotherly type of Eastern European descent, however.
If it were me I would find a bucket of water and hold it up to the cabinet and slowly open the cabinet and let the bowls fall in the water.
Put a whole bunch of pillows and cushions on the floor. When you open it, it won't smash..
Slide open a small gap for a vacuum cleaner tube to enter and suck the first bowl then push it all upward
Okay, empty cupboard next to it. Cut hole near dishes. Reach in and grab while holding the other door shut.
Slide the glass door slightly to the right, just enough for you to move your left hand into the cabinet. Hold the first falling plates in place, then slide the glass door open a little more. With a much wider opening, your left hand should hopefully be able to hold back the weight of most plates.
Cut and remove the glass panel of the shelf below the plated and reach in to retrieve the plates that are on verge of falling off
Break bottom glass pane, and slowly support the bowls from under. I'm sure the glass pane is much easier to replace.
Ok let's face the problem. Lay the floor of the cupboard with the biggest carpet you can find or a table cloth and open the door of the cupboard.
Step 1: obtain a large container/surface
Step 2: fill with a squishy foam or a layer of towels, sheets, soft surfaces.
Step3: have someone hold this container underneath the cupboard to catch the first few dishes as they fall
Good luck!
Break glass on TOP left and TOP right. Grab a chair to stand on so that u have great view of where you are about to reach into. Make sure your arms can go in without obstruction. Remove all shards carefully so as to be able to reach in (wearing gloves) to slowly pick up the dishes from left front and supporting the dishes in order (first plate pull upward, hold 2nd plate in place it is in securely, pile dishes slowly back to the far end left where they seem to be stacked and stable).
Find a bee hive, locate the queen bee. Relocate her to your cupboard by drilling a small hole and placing her inside. Open all your doors and windows for a couple weeks. The bees will build a honeycomb all around the plates and secure them. Then you can safely open the doors.
Drill a hole, stick a straw or a stick, hold the dishes while you open gently, reach out inside and fix. The hole can be left open as it won't show a lot
Open the cupboard and SLAM it back as fast as possible. Some will drop to the lower level and may break but you save most of it. This is called insurance.
Cut the upper OR side glass of the shelf. Put your hand inside the shelf, takeout the fallen dishes and then open the shelf.
Turn off clipping, reach through and restore dishes to safe position, turn on clipping and open the cupboard normally.
Let one person open the door and someone else catches the dishes in thick clothe ..something like this
Open the cupboard and have a safety net out or a trampoline, bounce or catch your plates, like a stunt double. :)
Lay the cabinet on the floor and open the door. Do this very very slowly as not to break the plates as they slowly drop to the back of the cabinet
You can use a huge tub filled with water to help the plates drown in them after opening the cupboard. Be sure that it has a lot of depth so the plates swim around before losing gravitanional force.
Break the glass directly in front of the bowls and push them back into place. Remove the rest of the broken glass and no one will notice it's gone.
What if you put adhesive tape on the glass above and then you broke it carefully , and then you can take the ceramic in order.
(sorry, bad english)
Embarrassingly obvious: the problem here is Earth's gravity. Since gravity is a property of mass and since mass and energy are equivalent I'd simply wait for an intense solar flare to disrupt the magnetic field and offset space/time - then, when the gravitational force is disrupted, carefully reach through the quantum foam and place the dishes safely on the counter before the wormhole closes. Pay it forward, my friend.
Fishing line wiggled in the door and use the resistance on the ege of the dosh to push them back onto the shelf
Kindly ask Mr. Chetan Bhagat... it's been days that he has not done anything which involves Engineering.
you need a technician to open a small hole with diameter 3 cm then you can use a stick pushing the dishes while another person is opening the cupboard carefully then also a nother one can catch the dishes and return them back to their normal position
Good luck
Grab a Doona, soft blankets or towels and cover the bench. Open the door slowly and let The first one drop, move it Then repeat until the unstable ones are all out
1. if the plates are expensive and irreplacable buy a glass cutter, cut a small circle in the middle of the glass pane and push them back on the shelf and have the glass pane replaced. Very low cost.
2. If they are not expensive plates, I would slide something thin inbetween the door and the door frame, like a piece of card board or a metalmcoathanger to hold the dishes back and then open the door and " save " the dishes !
Open the door and just let those plates fall. Scoop up the pieces into a jar, dig a grave, and have a funeral for your broken things.
Re-enter your home. It should reload your cupboard and possibly also put in different bowls.
The backs of cabinets are often removable. If yours is, unscrew it and remove the plates from behind.
Stare at situation. Doubt all your life decisons. Have a total meltdown and create alternative world in mind where plates would never betray you and put you in such a situation.
have someone take the adjacent door glass out (break & replace it if necessary) and then reach in and correct the dishes before opening the door
Hold your hand against the glass. Some time in the next few billion years all the atoms in your hand and in the glass will perfectly align and your hand will pass right through the glass.
Depends how the doors are mounted. If external, unscrew the hinges while applying pressure to door... now keep pressure only on bottom, lightly separate the top, reach in one by one and pull them to safety.
Build refrigerator around cabinet. Fill all spaces with the jello of your choice. Add fruit. Add liquor(sizzerp if you're into it). Let sit overnight
Or can just tell the plates Dump Trump got elected. The plates will all run screaming to the back of the shelf
Be really faster thank you think you already are. You know exactly what I'm talking about.
I'd think she should pull the cupboard back from the wall, then slowly pry the back off the cupboard. Likely has very small nails at the back and it won't be hard to reattach the back with little damage.
Open the door slowly, make no noise, then fetch the kid and run back to the opened door. Oh wait I thought we're talking about Harembe.
Please smash the top 2 glasses. And then you can easily reach you plates. No damage done to your plates. Enjoy!!
Open the door just enough where you can slide our hand in to support the bowls, then gently slide it and push the bowls back up into an upright position and pray that none break. Maybe just a couple, but it's better than all of them.
I love coming here to read the comments. Some people (like myself at times) are obsessed with reading comments. For example, we find you reading this comment right now, which does not contain any useful information, only curiosity, that drives you to waste your time. Have a good night.
Can't see the whole cabinet. So here goes... open door slightly try to get towels in the cabinet, keeping opening it slightly and adding more towels. Have help while opening and inserting towels. Stabilize the first three or four bowls and then you're good! If that doesn't work my daughter has a wizard's sword that she has and could cast a spell to help! Abracadabra
Hire a ninja. With their incredible speed and agility, they can open the cupboard and quickly halt the bowls from falling out. Even if the bowls do fall out, with their amazing speed they can catch each bowl as it falls out, while stacking them up.
Lay the cupboard on its side (if it's not outrageously heavy). They'll all fall to one side and probably stay intact. You can get them out and set everything back upright.
break a window at the the top of the closet. And save them one by one.. It'll cost you less then the broken plates.
Find a big tub. Fill with water. And hopefully all fall into the water in order not to break anything
find a small mattress, place it directly below the cupboard.
Get an extra hand to help.
Open slightly, just enough for one hand to slip in, and hold the outermost bowl. Upon contact with the outermost bowl, apply inward pressure and hold.
Open the cupboard door the rest of the way and reposition your bowls.
Wait for the next earthquake. If you are lucky, it will be re-arranged. If not, the insurance will pay for it. Win-win...
You can't save it, only make the most of it: get your kids to marry a Greek and have the celebration at your house.
Not that difficult. Gently slide the door to the right about 4-5 inches without disturbing the plates. Reach in with one hand and hold plates all while maneuvering the door and repositioning plates to a stable position on shelf.
Get Jack, Kate, Sawyer, John, Hugo to come tell you in 1977 not to single stack your bowls in 2016...simple.
Ask a carpenter to remove the rails from under the sliding door of the cupboard. Get a second carpenter to stand in front of the cupboard with a mattress. Both carpenters should be very athletic and without shirts. Mom and carpenter one should open the door very quickly and carpenter two should throw the matress under the plates. If this fails the two carpenters should use mom and the matress to make up for the loss.
Place a inflatable pool on the floor and another inflatable pool for the bowls to slide down.
You know how rescurers always lay a huge air bed when someone threaten to jump off a building? Lay something soft or foamy below (like a huge sponge)so as to minimise the impact when you open the cupboard... plates might still be alive ^^
You could try a few different ways. I typically find that using my right hand is easiest but you could always opt to use your left hand if that is more comfortable for you (no jokes, she needs help!)
The dishes? Oh I am not an expert on ceramics and their intricacies. I got you the door open, the rest is up to you.
Using a glass cutter, score a perfect circle as per James Bond and simply pop out that piece. Restock plates through hole and you're done.
Super glue removed section back in place, and it will be perfect again