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You don't have any great options but you do have some options. You'll need dynamic DNS, which you can get for free by various providers. This will manage a "dynamic" DNS entry for your occasionally changing, non-static IP at home. The dynamic DNS entry won't be on your own domain name, it will be on the provider's domain name. But wait! That's just step one.
You can still get your own, fully-functional domain name, and you can have all the domains and subdomains you want, and set them up however you want, with one important restriction: You can't use IP addresses (because yours is dynamic, and changes all the time and you would have to be constantly updating your domain every time it does, and there would be delays and downtime while everything gets updated).
Instead, your personal domains have to use CNAME records. This substitutes the IP from a different domain INTO your domain. So you CNAME every entry on your own fancy domains to point at your dynamic DNS provider, which manages the dynamic part of the problem for you and always gives the real IP you need. Nobody sees the dynamic DNS name, it's there, but it's happening behind the scenes, they still see your fancy personalized domain names.
It's still not going to be perfect, it won't work well or at all for certain services like email hosting (self-hosting this is not for the faint of heart anyway) that are very strict about how their DNS and IP addresses need to be set up, but it will likely be good enough for 99% of the stuff you want to self-host.