Since this thread has been reborn... I've been wet shaving since I was 16, that would be 1976! I started out with an Atra and canned shave cream. I think I was using Brut or British Sterling. Haven't used either A/S in a while, but I miss them both a little especially the British Sterling. But I was just recently reborn myself! My first DE was an Edwin Jagger DE89L that came with a 5 pack of Derby blades and I also ordered a 100 pack of Sharks. I got a Tweezerman Badger brush and a Col. Conks Bay Rum puck in a shave mug as a kit. I've got several A/s's I'm using now: Lagerfeld, Old Spice, C.O. Bigelow Blue, Bowling Green by Jeffery Bean.