bic approach

BIC APPROACH

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The brand “Bic” is of course trademarked.  Sometimes you see the circled ‘tm’ and sometimes not.  You won’t see one here.  I’m giving these cheese dingus’ free advertising and they want me to also announce it’s particular legal position?  Well, there you go, bastards.  Okay, actually I like the company.  To this day, they make the best disposable lighter.  How many other companies have said “screw every single person alive, I’ll only offer them crap products made by slave labor in China ( the US, home of the free, incarcerates more folks per capita than communist China or the former Soviet Union-so I suppose our only slave labor are from the taxpayers subsidizing the Prison Industry.  But, please, feel free to act like China has a worst system so you can gloat and preen ) which will fall apart soon after freeing it from its plastic cocoon that is there to protect itself from real inspection but we pretend it is to thwart shoplifting which really wouldn’t be so much of a problem if Wal-Mart would spend an extra eighteen cents per item for a RFID tag and then pay someone besides grandma to guard the entrance.”?  99% of them, or near bouts.

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Bic lighters, are to me ( and I might be so misinformed and delusional it is pathetic ), 100% reliable and worthy of being in your survival preps.  I refuse to consider any other brand.  If they had a sale, twenty disposable lighters for a dollar, and the Bic cost a dollar EACH, I’d never ever consider the cheaper units.  That is how good Bic is in my opinion.  I mean, what do I know, being a smoker and then living off grid and having first hand experience with fire starting apparatuses?  I can’t say one way or another as far as their pens or razors.  I generally avoid ink pens if I can help it ( why spend the money if they dry up with age or freeze in the winter? ) and if I’m not mistaken their razors are only single blade which tear my skin up too much.  And here is the thing about Bic.  They are not bottom barrel cheap, but neither are they unduly expensive.

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And that is why a loyal minion chose to describe his survival preps purchasing strategy as “The Bic Approach” ( trade mark and copyright pending-stolen with impunity ).  Bic items are very affordable, cheap enough that if you lose it you won’t rend your hair and scream to the gods in anguish, and yet are very well made and reliable.  Needless to say, you don’t find a lot of items like this.  Now, this isn’t anything I haven’t covered myself.  I’ve described in nauseating and repetitive detail about Frugal Survivalism and then Middlin’ Price Equipment.  It is the same thing.  But just the name, Bic Approach, describes the technique far better and more intuitively than my attempts.  Bic is NOT cheap or shoddy, just disposable.  It is quality at a value.  Let’s cover some more Bic Approach items, shall we?  They ever popular Mora knives.  High-Point firearms ( minions suggestion ), the Lee-Enfield, the Rada sharpener and surplus clothing.  Of course there are more, but this is what I came up with.  You can apply this across the entire spectrum of prepping ( such as “junk land” ).

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We should all know about the Swedish Mora knives by now.  Carbon steel blades at $15, give or take the price of a blow job by a syphilitic AIDS ridden whore with leprosy in the back ally of Calcutta.  If you buy the former Bic Approach knife, stainless steel from India, it is now Nowhere Near Real Stainless Steel From China and usually not worth the money.  Spend 50% more and get a high quality high value knife from the soon to be Islamic Republic Of Norseland.  There are other good deals out there, such as the $25 Kukri which is both carbon steel and a Billy Bad Ass improvement for combat ( having more reach and much more mass ), but for an everyday carry knife that is, if necessary, disposable, go with the Mora.  Granted, you must make your own sheath or improvise on the included plastic one, but that shouldn’t be a huge deal.

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I have had zero experience with Hi-Point firearms, being adamantly opposed to 9mm all my life.  Of course, my young adulthood years were primarily influenced by watching Magnum PI and lusting after a 45, but what cemented my dislike was being in the military.  My second unit had been issued the 9’s, then returned them all as total crap and was re-issued the 45’s in the interim.  Granted, that was the firearm and the company, not the caliber, but the incident did cement my previous superstition.  What turned around my thinking, not to blind acceptance but to reluctant allowance with conditions, was the “Enemies Foreign And Domestic” author advocating the 9mm to allow for increased and superior Round Placement.  You really can’t argue with that kind of logic.  While I won’t be giving up my revolvers and the 357/38, I’m at least now open to the idea of the 9 as a “forever gun”.  The minion’s opinion is that the Hi-Point is a Bic gun, one third the price of Glock and reliable as can be.

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You know how I loves me my Lee-Enfield bolt action war surplus rifles.  They are emphatically NOT a modern plastic 308 battle rifle, but they are one third the price, amazingly reliable, battle proven in several wars, to this day the only rifle able to perform in the artic by Kunik troops, and until recently very affordable.  If they are still worth it at today’s prices is an ongoing debate best suited for elsewhere.  They were not as poor quality as the Russian Mosin-Nagants and not as cheap, but still Bic Approach disposable with true value.

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As I’ve said, the Rada brand knife sharpener is my newest bestest tool.  I’ve advocated others over the years but this is far superior.  And a whopping $7 which puts it in the price range of barely more than the junk out there.  It only works perfectly if the knife already has the proper angle, so beware too cheap of Chinese crap knives.  If you buy cheap knives, you’ll need a companion Landski sharpener to cut new angles ( if you have zero skills with a stone.  Don’t be embarrassed.  Better to have a razor sharp knife with the guys ribbing you than pretend to know what you are doing and have a worthless cutting tool as a result ).

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Military surplus clothing.  Not the very expensive made in America New England Yuppie wear ( jeans at $100, etc. ) nor the very worthless not as cheap anymore made in China-Mart items.  A happy medium in almost all items ( I swear by Sportsman’s Guide-only a few duds over the last near decade ).  It isn’t just BDU nonsense, but plenty of regular everyday wear items such as hats and sweaters and what not.  High quality, low price.

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