What I am doing as I have 0 miner hardwares just yet, is hitting particular altcoin faucets, especially the lower cooldown period ones and working for a couple hours or so a day to trade somewhere, such as Poloniex for parts of a bitcoin per trade.
Some good coins I found for the moment, I am sorry, but I can't spill, I work on faucets to secure them in a local wallet or so and soon exchange them. I need to see what happens. Sure, they may be smal pieces of single coins, but you do know already, I hope, that it all keeps adding up.
Trust me, u can better utilize your time than faucet farming. Look at various aspects of CryptoCurrency and try to explore.
I agree with you. Collecting satoshi on faucets is really wasted your time and it's not very worth. You will realize it soon. Even you do the faucets until 10 hours, you only earning up to $1. My advice is stop using faucets and do some little task, it's more worth.