Retired Marine. I began smoking and collecting pipes in 2004, and I didn’t really start collecting pipe tobacco until after I retired in 2015 with the closure of McClelland... I kind of used this site for a while to see reviews, then I actively started using this site in 2022, it easier to track what I have tried. My previous method was handwritten reviews in 3.5"X 5" green pocket notebooks. The hassle of flipping through pages is to see if I have reviewed something has finally gotten old.