Another way to benefit from home games
Of course, everyone is different. But I feel like sharing how I benefited greatly from my old home game. We used to play weekly, every Wednesday, for low stakes, mainly for the pizza / beer / camaraderie.
As I became more serious about the game, I felt I was becoming the best player at that table. I began to openly discuss strategy with my friends, and because we're all friends - and .10/.20 blinds are no big deal to anyone - they eventually began to reciprocate. We all started to discuss the play afterward, especially when we took our hourly smoke breaks. The talk graduated from things like position, slow play, basic outs counting to in depth discussion of pot
odds, ranges, back door hand obfuscation, implied odds, the whole 9 yards. After a while, the strategy talk became rather dizzying to follow - but with practice, we all started thinking and playing a deeper, more intense game. All for .10/.20.
Now, largely due to this "training" of ourselves, we are ALL good enough to regularly beat the local $1/$3 casino games. Although in the short term, sharing strategy with my buddies may have cost me some low-stakes cash, in the long term I became a *much* better player by working with my other friends who love this game to push ourselves to get better and better.
I know everyone is different, and maybe your group isn't quite so close / willing to share these sorts of things. Or maybe they aren't serious about the game. But I would say if you are playing with people who really are friends, why not encourage everyone to study the game and get better while the stakes are cheap?