This is unrealistic. If I didn't accept TODO items older than a year, or even five years, I never would have built my fence, fixed my stairs, set up my home lab, learned iOS development, digitized my family's old photos/videos, or innumerable other things, because for each of those things, I had 10 to 100 more mundane but more time-sensitive/higher-priority things to do.
You can manage long-term lists without losing items to the abyss by using prioritization techniques.
I feel that you're being unrealistic, not the parent poster: Turning every aspect of your life into a jira ticket straight up isn't healthy (I'm using "jira" here as a stand-in for "any process management system, digital or physical"). I don't feel that writing yourself a reminder to "fix stairs" is normal or a desirable process. At best: This feels similar to a CEO writing a jira ticket to "make website faster"; you've brought an unactionable outcome into process management, rather than the specific actionable steps (e.g. a shopping list).
I feel fixing stairs would be very actionable though, and something that I'd not remember other than when it almost fails under load or fails entirely.
I personally don't need a reminder to go off for a thing I need to do today or tomorrow, but something happening next week or next month that I need to check up on or arrange. Those tend to be the kind of expensive and really annoying thing to fix after neglecting
