HT202337 why do i have 6 calendars I only want one? I phone 4s

And why cant I send events to wife and son and vice-versa so they show up in each of our caleddars
it is so frustrating and far too complicated
now there is an icloud one, i cant use icloud as i do not have enough space, so i have turned if off, i backup to PC
can i delete all the calendars I dont want and just leave one that synchs with work and home?
I am so fed up with all the complexity
would it be better to get another app and just delete the apple one? woudl thsi work if i was invited to attend things from other people
can anyone help!
Thanks

Dear Matt, Thank you so much for your reply
OK, I did not realise you could delete them. Have now deleted them and have only one. But there is another one under icloud called family that i have shared with wife and son? Not sure where this one came from, possibly when i set up family sharing?
In icloud settings icloud drive is off, photos on, mail off, contacts on, calendar on, find my phone on, rest are off - I don't really know what on earth I am doing with icloud as there are no instructions as to what everything means or does if you turn on or off? Apple assume we have the same knowledge as the staff who work in the app store!
wife and son have apple id's, I don't understand what you mean by icloud acounts? it's all so confusing. yes they both have iphones, yes I have set up family sharing and that seems to work ok, for sharing apps. That is the only bit we have to be working OK!!
But if my wife sends me an invite i don't get it. My one remaining calendar does synch with outlook at work.
My wife and son are just as clueless on all options/settings. I asked my sons friends (teenagers) and they were just as clueless and only used whats app, instagram, twitter, etc, as they don't understand all the apple stuff either.
Apple have turned everything so complicated. If it helps you at my level of frustration, we have never managed to get any music on the three iphones from cd's copied to my PC. its too complicated, I did do it once on the first ipod, years ago, but never since. It kept saying iphone in not allowed on this PC and we just gave up, and was trying to synch hundreds of CD's we could not just to copy on the cd's and tracks we wanted. We have given up and subscribed to Deezer.
I am happy to move to another calender if it makes it easier, as I am really at the end of my tether with Apple complexity!
Thanks for your reply.

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