While the current BTC price sucks... difficulty increase/less payouts suck... and we have operating costs... I think focusing on that stuff (for the home miner) is the wrong attitude.  I don't care about short term price.  The way I see it, I am buying cheap bitcoins from my electric company.  I believe in the long term success of bitcoin.  Even if I start operating at a loss in the coming months, it won't matter long term.   Everyone needs to stop looking at home mining as a get rich quick scheme and start looking at how it fits in to your 5-10 year plans.  If you believe in bitcoin, and cryprocurrency in general, it's a no brainer.