Re: don't rely on gift tokens, balance your time with other things.
Are you talking about bounty and airdrop tokens? It depends on your skill to predict which is good and has a future and which is not.
Depends from your luck, choosing this kind of bounties are really getting harder from time to time. If luck permits you then you'll get satisfying results.
If you do not believe in the token, then I highly recommend you sell it at least for few dollars and invest into altcoin with a potential.
Better doing so, you can use the money to trade and work with your other opportunities, instead of keeping it without any faith with the coin.
I believe that one day we will see another 100x growths. 
There's always time for every growth to happen, maybe that's huge but who knows what future will bring.