Surprising as it may be, I actually don’t have a lot of WIPs stashed away all over the place. I used to get regular bouts of startitis, but having limited knitting time has curbed the urge to cast on several projects in a day. Well, that’s a lie. I still get the urge, but I don’t have the time to act on it. 
But even with raging startitis, any project that was left untouched on the needles for a fair length of time tended to be frogged because I usually wanted the needles for something else shiny that had caught my eye.
So it’s a rare project that’s left in my knitting bag for two years in the hope that it might eventually get finished.
And it’s two years to the day since I started the Goddess Knits Mystery Shawl. It got put aside for, in rough order: other major lace knitting, festive knitting and then baby knitting. And now there is just no way on earth it will ever get finished, I fear. It’s a beautiful pattern, very much choose-your-own-adventure with the different pattern choices for each section and I do want to knit it one day. But quite honestly, I am no longer in love with the bright red yarn or the complicated stitch pattern that I chose to do for the final section and it’s taking up a pair of splendid Addi Lace circulars which could be used for other knitting (eventually).
Dear readers, it’s time for me to muster up the courage, pull the needles from the hundreds of stitches and wind up several metres of skinny yarn. 
Cant you just put a border on it now or even just cast off, it will probably be an ideal size for Rose’s dressing up box when shes a bit bigger.
Ouch! However, it is comforting to know that others deal with this sort of thing. It means it’s not JUST me.
I know the feeling, I have a shawl that I started about 16 months ago, I would frog but it has mohair through it. Maybe, one day it will get finished lol
Put it on waste yarn (or indeed cast off as Nevisknitter suggested, good idea!), see how you feel about it when you can see it flat as it’s meant to be looked at. Nothing looks very exciting when it’s all crunched up on needles. You can still frog it then.
If it’s not too late, here’s an idea. I once owned a yarn shop and had several customers who were having trouble finishing up a project. I told them to set a goal – 4 or 5 rows each day on the project. If they just did an inch or so each day, it would eventually get finished. My fingers and toes are crossed in high hopes!
But it’s red! Nobody is allowed to frog red things. And it has a rather awesome hello kitty stitch marker. Can’t you hear, it’s saying KNIIIIT MEEEEE!
(i know what you mean though, if you’re not feeling it, why continue when there are so many other awesome things to make in the world…. time is a precious thing, and knitting should be fun)