Drop whatever you're doing, we have a situation in here! A stay-at-home mother has posted a picture of the 'impossible to open' cupboard and she needs your tips to open it without destroying these precious porcelain plates.
'A cupboard that can never be opened,' - read the caption. Of course, you can never throw words like 'never' online because soon after posting, the army of kind-hearted internauts came pouring in (16,000 reactions and 456 comments) to help this lady with getting her plates to safety.
What would you do in this situation? Post your answers below!
Update: The photo was actually taken after an earthquake in the Tottori Prefecture on October 21st, in a hotel owned by the Kishida family.
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#81
Enlist two strong people to help.Have the two people slowly tip the china cupboard backwards about 45 degrees until the bowls settle slowly, then simply open the door a hand's width, slide you hand in and turn the first bowl sideways and remove. Repeat.
3points
#82
Ask people on Boredpanda, let them answer and wait until you guess you have 1 or 2 best answers are possible to do.
3points
#83
A couple of things indicate that it is a sliding door that slides to the right. I feel one can safely slide the door by 4-5 inches to the right and insert ones left hand. You can take help from a left handed / ambidextrous friend to be safe.
3points
#84
Post a picture of your predicament on the Internet to seek advice!
3points
#85
Hit the back button a couple of times.
3points
#86
Remove the board from the back of the cabinet or the one on the top if it is a top shelf. You will have a better aproach and you won't destroy anything this way.
3points
#87
Get a large stack of old newspapers, and a helper. Slip the paper in through a crack in the cupboard door. Continue until the empty space is filled with paper. Slowly and carefully open cupboard while friend is poised to catch, dishes. Maybe have 3rd person to take the dishes from the first so they can continue trying to stablize plates.
3points
#88
Look at the cupboard and rack your brain for a possible solution. When you don't find one; which you won't, just take one last look and start crying. Continue crying till your husband and kids come home and make them get you a new set or refuse to fulfill any motherly-Wifey duties.
3points
#89
Sit down. Relax. Find you inner center. Realize that we all - the whole cosmos - is linked. We're all one. We're all a tiny piece of something so big, we'd never understand. Take a deep breath. Open the cupboard. You shouldn't worry about the broken dishes and your bleeding face now.
3points
#90
Put up a sign "Cupboard Out Of Order"
3points
#91
Waiting for the best possible advice how to open the cupboard make sure you secure the door so it won't open with the pressure of the plates :-) or to much movement around the cupboard:-)and good luck! Don't smash the door glass, gently and carefully cut the glass (tools needed)big enough to take the plates out !They are beautuful :-) and don't replace the broken glass,leave it as something to remember by...
2points
#92
Just break the plates, life is to short!!
2points
#93
Get a glass cutter cut hole in glass paine above or below to stick hand in - replace glass
2points
#94
Glass cutter to cut off the glass at the bottom. Put a cushion for the bowls to fall on. From the same hole you can slowly take the rest of the bowls off the cupboard.
2points
#95
the good plates are in the other cupboard
2points
#96
Open the top of the cabinet and get the plates. ask for a carpenter to do it for yah.
2points
#97
Paint the glass a dark color and ask some jerk neighbor to come for tea, cups are in the cupboard help your self 😉
2points
#98
Buy a new cupboard and a new set of plates that look exactly the same as the current one. Place the new cupboard right in front of the existing, arrange the plates to your delight. Problem solved! Out of sight, out of mind!
2points
#99
Open and close the door quickly over and over again until they shift into a more stable position.
2points
#100
Switch off thw lights..invite ur friends for a party.. ask one of em to open thw cupboard n grab some plates.. once they open n smash the plates..Ask em to pay for it..
2points
