The Cost Plus stuff is so pretty. I wish the web site were more detailed, though. Their media centres, for instance, are shown mostly closed, so you can't see what the organisation inside is like. And the descriptions aren't that helpful. It's not like I'm buying without stopping by the store, but I'm trying to kill time at work, and I feel underserved.

I saw a Design on a Dime episode that went shopping for an entertaiment center at a Cost-Plus, and they ended up getting a pretty nice one (not their first choice, though) for about $250.

Oh, hivemind....

There's a product I usually refer to as a "candle pistol" because you pull a trigger and it produces a flame. But it's much bigger than a cigarette lighter. What's its real name?

Barbecue lighter?

You write Sting/Stewart Copeland slash, right?

Poor Andy Summers. Where's the LOVE??!?!??

Barbecue lighter?

Huh. Doesn't sound quite right in a query letter for a bridal magazine on "practical tips from a wedding coordinator." Maybe I'll just call it a lighter.

But a cigarette lighter doesn't work nearly as well for candles -- it isn't designed to burn horizontally. When I hear "lighter", I think "cigarette lighter".

Susan, Bic calls it a utility lighter

I've heard it called a utility lighter before as well as a multi-purpose lighter (although this last is a translation from Spanish, so take it with a grain of salt).

There's a product I usually refer to as a "candle pistol" because you pull a trigger and it produces a flame. But it's much bigger than a cigarette lighter. What's its real name?

In our house, it's called the clicky fire thing, and is usually taken away from me.