Label your breakers...

It will make your life much simpler if you label the circuit breakers in your home. This is easy to do. Just buy some self-adhesive labels at your local stationary store or your good ole Walmart. turn on all the lights in the house. Switch off one circuit breaker at a time. Now walk through the house and write down which lights are off. These correspond to the breaker you switched off. Write down the rooms on the label and stick to box, either next to breaker or on the door. Now switch that breaker back on and turn off the next one. Proceed the same as before and do this for each breaker and you are done.

If you find that you can't fit all the rooms on the label for each circuit breaker, then use the number method. Place a label next to each breaker with a number, now on a sheet of paper assign that number to the correct rooms in the house. Tape this sheet to the inside of the door of the breaker box. You are done.

If someone in your house is blind or visually impaired, work with them to come up with a system they can use when they are home alone. Remember, maybe a blind person does not need the lights on, but they do need the appliances to operate.

As a side note: if you are reading this and you find that your home still has fuses, I would strongly reccommend that you have your service updated. This will be a requirement in some counties before you can sell your home.