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Mom Asks The Internet To Help Her Open This Cupboard, Here Are The Responses
#4001
Keep the plates and cupboard exactly as they are as an art installation. But even artists have to eat, so make sure you get new plates and cupboard. If you can't afford to have two sets of plates and two cupboards, ticket your new art installation to the public to cover the cost.
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#4002
Slide a sheet of bendy but firm plastic or mdf wood trough the bottom of the door. Open the door. Essentially you're replacing the door with something you can then slide down and gain access to the plates from the top. DONE.
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#4004
If those are Irreplaceable China I would say go to hardware store and get a window popper. First use tape to keep that cabinet shut ,Then carefully break the window below slowly stuff a few old bed sheets to stabilize the dishes the pop the glass pain above the dishes and remove your priceless goods. Careful not to cut your self. Good luck! !!
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#4005
It's Easy Peasy.......You just need to find a kid who's a champion cup stacker. When you pull the door open, he or she will have no problem gathering the dishes into a proper stack without breaking either a dish or a sweat. Pay the kid and then put him/her name in for a scholarship to Stack University.
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#4006
Have this cabinet as a display cabinet. Get another one for actual use. In the mean time, this can be some Tracey Emin-esque art.
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#4007
Get a glass cutter, cut out the top glass, reach through, save dishes.
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#4008
Remove the pane directly above the plates on the left, get on a ladder then reach inside and retrieve the plates carefully. Then do what I do, invest in a couple rolls of SOLID grip rubber liner (20"x6' length) and line your cupboards shelves with them and anything else you treasure to keep from bouncing and breaking, it's worth the $8.74 a roll I pay at Walmart! Here's a pic of the roll that I also use on my desktop to keep the keyboard from sliding off of the pull out keyboard drawer.
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#4009
Put a basket with laundry in it under the cabinet door. That way the laundry softens the landing, hopefully preventing breakage. It may allow you the time to stop the others from falling at all.
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#4010
Simple: It is MIND OVER MATTER, open the door, catch as many as you can, go ahead put a pillow on the floor for laughs. In the end, we don't mind as it doesn't matter
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#4012
break a pane of glass and pull out the dishes above shelf then replace the pane of glass
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#4013
Get another person to help - two cushions and open the door as fast as possible - planning is important - get both new fluffed up pillows under as many as possible so they all fall onto the pillows - you may still lose a few but not all. If you have excel pillows also place them on the floor surrounding the cupboard.
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#4015
Drill a hole through the glass and usebuilders expansion foam and they will be safe.
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#4016
You need a metal metre ruler. Slide up from the bottom holding the dishes in while someone else opens the cupboard door. Easy.
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#4017
Hold a laundry basket lined with a big soft towel at the bottom of the cupboard then open it
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#4020
Ask a glass cutter to open the glass on the right side slowly, then carefully lift the plates that are about to fall back to the shelf or remove them. It's cheaper to pay a glass cutter than to buy a new set of China plates specially if they are the expensive ones.
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#4023
Drill a small hole in the frame and fill the cabinet with Cheetos cheese puffs. It should only take ten bags or so... After the bowls fall, use them to eat the Cheetos. Everybody wins!
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#4024
Break the glass pane next to the dishes and remove dishes, replace cheap pane of glass.
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#4025
If the cupboard is not fastened in place, slide it out and gently tilt it back enough to prevent them from falling.
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#4026
Break the window in the cupboard and push the plates back up. Not expensive to replace the glass.
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Paula Catania Buckingham (Submission author) 9 years ago
...of course make sure you break a pane of glass next to the one the plates are leaning against.
#4027
Open the door slowly, letting the dishes slid down the glass
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#4028
use a moving dolly to lift cabinet and move forward so can tip back a little while cabinet is tilted back should be able to open door and safely move dishes back or try opening metal coat hanger feeding in door to hold in place while opening door
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#4030
Just open it, to see what is gonna happen. If nothing smashed then you are lucky else record your experience and share it in Facebook.
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#4031
Just leave it in there and use paper plates that's the safe way
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#4032
Bring a children's bathtub pour water into it and then open the cupboard a one single go
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#4033
Why about a zen way of dealing with this? 👼🏼 'Kintsugi (金継ぎ?, きんつぎ, "golden joinery"), also known as Kintsukuroi (金繕い?, きんつくろい, "golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique.'
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#4034
You gotta step on the loose board on the docks behind the kitchen, that'll get the bird away from the red herring...bring this to the trolls bridge he will let you pass.
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#4035
Take a folded towel and push against the glass to bow it slightly inward (not too hard) and keep pressure on it as you ease the door open enough to slide your hand in. At that point you should be able to push the dishes back into place and then continue to open the door and straighten dishes until door is open and you can properly reset them.
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#4036
It's simple. Get a couple of strong guys and pull the cabinet away from the wall. Then have them lean it back and use gravity to your advantage. You can safely open the cabinet and get the dishes out.
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#4037
Nah,..... just open the cupboard and let it go with a bang!!!😃
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#4038
I would ask the audience first. If that doesn't work, jump the problem and move to the next cabinet.
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#4039
Get a long framing square. Open cupboard 2 cm. Insert framing square. Slide up along glass. The L shape will be used to push against bowls. Some keeps holding the square and another person opens door slowly. Remove bowls. You may sacrifice one or two to save the rest.
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#4041
I'm sure David Blaine can handle this one. The guy regurgitates frogs, makes playing cards appear in your pocket, and accomplishes amazing magical feats. Worst case scenario, he makes your fine china disappear.... In the garbage.
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#4042
I like number 5, the most reasonable. I would open the cupboard door a little and put my hand it enough to get the bowls close to the door and work my way back.
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#4044
Let them fall...use the pieces to tile a table top. Figure out how to NOT have this happen again.
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#4045
Let them fall and mosaic them into a lovely frame of mirror border!
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#4046
If they're made in China, open the door and just let them drop. send them back for recycling.
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#4047
There is a monk in the mountains of tibet, he is a master of levitation. He will help you with your problem. You must be pure in heart he will find you, p.s. hang around the air port is best.
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#4049
just leave it. claim it as a art / conversation peice and buy new dishes and store them in a safer place where the gap between the shelf and door is not big enough for a bowl to fall between.
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#4050
Grow a beard..... Stroke said beard. Your answer will be right in front of you.
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#4051
Hold the door in place while removing the screws from the hinges. Then slowly tilt the door out from the top until you can stick your hand in and rescue the bowls.
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#4052
Purchase octopus, place octopus under cabinet door...the octopus will catch the dishes as they fall.
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#4053
Move the door to the right as far as you can. Place a flat surfaced item in front of the bowl and push back. (I have a steel flat yard stick that I would use). Get another, if you cannot do it alone, to open the door a but further. Inch along like that until you are able to get hand/s into the cupboard to save all.
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#4054
slid a long balloon thru the door and blow up balloon one at a time until filledto bottom. open door!
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#4056
Have someone help you Tip the cabinet on its side slowly til its flat on the floor on its side.Open the door slowly to get to your China.
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#4057
Rig a wire hanger to come in from the side and push plates up before opening it carefully. Looks like there is a space.
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#4059
Just cut the one piece of window out! You can hold the window on an angle &preach in!
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#4060
Duct tape fix everything. Put some on a pencil with the tape sticky side out. Use it to tick to one plate at a time. Reapply new tape as needed. Or use packing peanuts. Fill the are under the dishes open slowly and remove dishes.
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#4061
Break the top glass and then sort the plates and then open it
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#4064
If you look at the cupboard door, it's one that slides. In this case it slides to the right. You can slide the cupboard door slightly to the right about an inch, then (as a previous commenter stated) slide a rigid piece of cardboard to keep the bowls together. Then work your way, slowly sliding the door right until you can access the bowls.
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#4067
Turn the photo 90 degrees to the right. The bowls should slide back into place.
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#4068
Stare at it for a while, in confusion. Then get a bucket of pillows, an incredibly fast ninja, and a net. Then, lie down on the pillows, cry to the ninja about life's unfairness , then cut the net into some art project to get your mind off of the whole matter.
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#4069
These aren't plates. It is the newest slinky. And it is trying to win!
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#4070
Go in through the other side and drill a hole you can stick your hand through to reach the plates
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#4072
Get someone to help you to gently lay the cupboard on its back then open it and remove the dishes.
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#4073
I can't see the bottom of the cupboard so I don know if this will work. Here is my submission based on what I see. If you provide further photos, it would be easier. For instance, can you unscrew the hinges on the door? If so, that might be one option to unscrew the door and tilt it forward and reach the bowls from the top without letting any fall.
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#4074
Ask Kung Fu master to open it..He will catch it with chop sticks.
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#4075
Open it from the other side and reach hand through and put them back in stack
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#4076
How about you just leave it like this and call it a piece of art 😜
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#4083
Slide a large sturdy piece of cardboard between plates and glass then open glad while supporting cardboard. Or tilt the cabinet back then open door.
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#4084
Slide cupboard forward and take off the back panel to expose them from the back, might break some but not all
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#4086
Get a piece of cardboard, large enough to just cover the front. Slightly open the door and start sliding the cardboard in and up, the cardboard should help keep the items in place, and be pliable enough for you to be able to push them back into place.
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#4087
Crack open door.slide sturdy cardboard in front of dishes leaving enough room to get your arm behind to remove dishes.may help to get help holding cardboard and place a basket with a thick towel under door in case you miss a few and aide in the clean up and never stack them high enough to have them topple again.someone could be under there next time and they push the door open
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#4088
Some of the suggestions here are flat out stupid. I understand this seems to be a stupid question in itself so the stupid responses are expected. Best one is probably the only one and that is to break the window on the right and remove the dishes thru the broken window.
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#4089
Get out magic wand, the spell is "wingardium Leviosa." Say the spell as you swish and flick. If you're a Muggle, get Harry or Hermione. Ron is a bit of a cluts.
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#4090
Put earbuds in, blast music, close you're eyes(real tight), pull door open, turn around and run (very fast) out the door, jump in the car and drive away, go shopping, get a massage, pedicure or whatever you like to do to relax. when you are done doing some thing relaxing go home, take a deep breath (before walking in door), look at smashed dishes and start demanding answers. Look at the kids, the dog, the husband (especially him) and demand to know who did it. Pour a drink while hubby cleans up
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#4091
Build a time machine. Go back in time to 2 minutes before you put these dishes in the cupboard. Warn your past self not to do it. Try and believe your future self. Come back to the future. DID YOU BELIEVE?
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#4092
Put a lot of blankets on the floor . Put the cabinet on the floor really slowly and open the back .
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#4093
Put a few large comferters on the floor with a few pillows as well. Then simply open it.
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#4094
Close door on right toward left just touching plate. Then same action to left- sided door. Reach in refit door and go back to fourth plate. Jiggle plates to compress into compact stack and pull out. Then easily compact loose plates on shelf and open desired door.
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#4095
use a glass cutter, cut the pane beside the fallen dishes. reach in carefully restack dishes. get a new pane of glass cut. Dishes safe, inexpensive solution.
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#4096
Inhale, exhale, and ponder the Time/Space continuum.
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#4097
I would cut the glass above the bowls and re-stack them before opening the door.
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#4098
(1) Pierce a hole through the top of the cupboard and fill with sand. (2) Then, tilt on the back side and open the door. (3) Remove plates and clean from sand.
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#4099
Pull entire cupboard out, slowly and carefully... Lay down flat on it's back. Open doors a retrieve bowls intact. Easy :-)
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#4101
Post a letter to Hermione Granger, Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry asking her to use her time turner to properly stack the dishes. Get a house elf, and tell it that the dishes must always remain safely stacked. Elf magic is powerful so, if your newly acquired elf successfully casts a no til spell on the dishes and cabinet, you can reward it with an article of clothing, thereby giving it its freedom.
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#4102
If the cupboard can tip backwards then tip it backwards so the dishes will back away from the glass.
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#4103
Just break the glass on the top so you can take out the plates easily. Glass cover can be replaced.
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#4104
Tip it backwards until you can open it or use a glass cutter and replace the glass
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#4105
Push out that piece of glass pull away fram remove all plates
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#4107
Break out the glass pane in the top left corner of the cabinet. You can then reach in and re-stack the dishes and then open the cabinet door. I can't imagine it costing more than $30 to replace the one glass pane.
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#4108
turn on kitchen sink, bathroom sink, tub, etc... And plug the drains. Make sure all of the homes doors and windows are closed and sealed. Proceed to fill the house with water and then open cabinet
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#4109
Seek out famed and legendary Jedi Master Luke Skywalker in the Ahch-To system and get him to teach you about the force. Just remember to prepare a lightsaber as an offering.
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#4110
Very slowly & carefully tilt the entire cabinet back until it is flat on the floor.Slowly open cabinet door and remove all China from cabinet. Set it back up with a very thin splint so that it ever so slightly tilts back. Put all the China back in cabinet. Sit down and have your favorite beverage! Voila!!!
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#4111
Fill the room's floor with as many cushions as you can find and as near to the cupboard as you can get them, then, open it
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#4113
Get all your pillows and make a fort. Now u dont need the plates
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#4116
My answer would be to procure a large number of soft pillows and down comforters. Stack them under the cupboard and open safely. There may be breaks, but it is safer this way. Should that not appeal to you, there is always the option of praying to Cthulhu.
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#4118
... put 2 double bed mattresses on d floor... n then open carefully... quite simple...
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#4119
Cut through the side of the cupboard. Set the dishes back up and open the door without worries. Then when you feel like doing work, nail the part of the side of the cupboard tha you cut out (you can even get your husband to do this!).
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#4120
Part 1: Drill a hole in the upstairs floor large enough to pass your hand through it. Re-stack the plates. Fill the hole with a recessed lamp. Now you have a nice lamp shining on your precious plates. Part 2: Install a web cam and broadcast "Plate Cam" in case they fall over again and you need to repeat this again.
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#4121
It's just an object. You own it, it shouldn't own you, to the point you ask for help Wasting your and other people's time. No big deal if it fell and broke.
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#4122
Slide a heavy poster board in between the door and bowls, should hold them back long enough for someone else to grab them..
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#4123
Try to slide in a cardboard box through the entire length as carefully as possible. It might work.
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#4124
Firstly...apologise to the crockery for stacking them up.in such a way..that they ended up in such mess ..poor fellas!!Secondly cut the glass of the cupboard..there's no love like crockery love!!!
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#4125
Open the door and let them fly. They will make great pieces for mosaic vases, bird houses, stepping stones and so much more... .
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#4127
open the closet door and catch them with a box or basket with pillows or cushion on it... expect to still break a few, though :)
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#4128
Plates doing the mannequin challenge. Don't try to open please.
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#4129
Carefully break the little window above it and reach in and save the dishes. The window can be easily replaced, the China can't.
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#4130
Slide the door open a bit, fot in your hands and grab the first plate using it to push the rest backwards. If you do it well, it should save you the plates. Good luck
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#4131
Break the cabinets upper section door glass and then pick out the plates and bowls.... You can repair the cabinet later. Was it helpful????
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#4132
Cut a circular shape piece from the glass, using a circular glass cutting tool.put your hand inside carefully and stack them properly.then open the door.
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#4133
Cut a circular shape piece from the glass, using a circular glass cutting tool.put your hand inside carefully and stack them properly.then open the door.
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#4134
put a lot of pillows on the floor and open
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#4136
Lay the cabinet on its back gently and then open the door and remove the plates
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#4137
Slowly open the cupboard door with a few cushions for the plates slide on.
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#4138
If possible break the top left glass... And remove your cutlery.
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#4140
If the cupboard is mobile you can slite it slowly untill put ut on the floor, and by trying to put the plate and bowl up. good luck
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#4141
1. Remove pane of glass on the right. 2. If that can't be done, fill tall stock pot with water. Open door slowly. 3. Using glass cutting bit, drill hole in pane. Use dowel rod through the hole to hold rice bowls in place while someone else opens door.
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#4142
Logic leads me to ask : Does the door indeed slide? If it does, where does it slide to? Is there a second sliding door, out of view to the right? Can that door be opened at all? If so, you can either reach in and retrieve the dishes one by one, or maybe even push said door against the dishes to secure or shift them enough to open the door and grab them in stacks.
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#4143
Just open up the door and see how much destruction it may yield out of it. It's a part of fun if not life as a whole
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#4144
you can get a big bucket and put a pillow inside the bucket. And let the plate fall in the the bucket.
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#4145
It's sliding door. Open it enoough for hand to get the bowls up.
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#4149
Flood the house, then open the cupboard without any risk
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#4150
I think you can open right side of the cabinet while you hold the other side of the cabinet then you close the right side of the cabinet then release your hand from the left side of the cabinet.
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#4154
Blame Obama, call Hillary a crook and elect Trump. Watch Trump smash all the plates in the neighborhood. Don't worry the middle class will buy new ones from his friends.
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#4156
You could open the cabinet with someone else and open it slowly also have a pillows around because if they fall they won’t break
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#4157
Burn the cupboard, then then take out the slightly melted bowls. Then blame the fire on someone you hate.
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#4159
Break the pane of glass just above the dishes. Clear the jagged glass and reach in pick up your dishes. Replace the broken glass pane.
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#4161
Keep a thick blanket (or several layers of blankets) on the floor in front of the cupboard, and partially under the cupboard. Then open the door slowly. The plates would fall on the soft blanket and probably not break.
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#4162
Call quicksilver to rearrange the plates before they fall.
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#4165
Break the glass on the right side of the cupboard, and squeeze in a lot of pillows, or an entire cotton mattress. Then open the door, and the mattress will fall out and catch the plates.. hopefully.. :)
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#4166
Move the cupboard out from the wall, tilt it backwards until the bowls shift Weight towards the backboard. It may then be safe to open the glass door.
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#4167
fill the cupboard with water
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#4168
Fill a large bin with towels or foam and hold it under the door, opening the door slowly and using your arm gently reach in and push the plates back this may work because the plates on the bottom will push the front ones forward in a line and then you can push the front back up. Simple science.
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#4170
Look for QuickSilvers phone number and ask if he can help.
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#4175
An Immobilus spell will do, if you haven't masterd that one yet. Let them brake and then use a reparo spell. That's basics and should have been covered by Professor McGonagall in your first year at Hogwarts!
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#4176
Spin the house round n round n round until the centrifugal force pushes the plates back onto the shelf. Be careful to stop the spin slowly.
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#4177
If this is your biggest problem in life, then open that door, let it all fall down and have a good laugh about it because you are a very lucky woman.
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#4178
take the cupboard off the wall, pack it in paper, order UPS pick up with insurance, deliver to an accomplice, claim refund.
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#4180
Count the plates/bowls and place that many Oompa-Loompas in front of the cupboard, open it and.... well. You'll see.
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#4181
Empty the identical cupboard to the left. Borrow some similar crockery and arrange it to resemble the other cupboard. Take a high definition photo and print it out in actual size. Now slip the print-out under the offending cupboard door so that it looks like nothing is wrong. Invite your least liked friend over and casually ask them to pass you a dish from the cupboard. As the dishes crash out of the cupboard quickly run over and dispose of print-out and demand your friend pay for the damage.
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#4182
Place a mattress or something which contains sponch in good qty on the floor near the cupboard and then open it.All the plates would fall over the mattress and remain unbreakable.
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#4183
If its a sliding door then get like areally think cloth and some people to help you out to get it
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#4185
Open a little bit, grab the plate's and pull the rest of the cabinet open while holding onto the plates
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#4186
Wingardium Leviosa
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#4187
Don't overthink it. Quote: Tseng said his friend had managed to open the cupboard safely. He told MailOnline: "She opened one door slightly and used her hand to hold the plates, then she pushed the door further." He said: "All plates were safe." End quote.
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AcousticGString 9 years ago
I kind of need to know how this ended.... did she open it? What was the result?
Ollie Law 8 years ago
It's not as exciting as you'd hope...she just asked a friend round who helped her open the door slowly while she put her hand in and caught them. Pretty boring really but also makes perfect sense...all plates were saved!
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AcousticGString 9 years ago
I kind of need to know how this ended.... did she open it? What was the result?
Ollie Law 8 years ago
It's not as exciting as you'd hope...she just asked a friend round who helped her open the door slowly while she put her hand in and caught them. Pretty boring really but also makes perfect sense...all plates were saved!
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