My macbook pro keeps on losing the hard drive storage space and now its 300 mb only in 5 minutes. How can i stop it??

need help please… URGENT!!!

It is entirely normal for free space to fluctuate, sometimes by a lot. How much free space did you have previously? I'm guessing it probably wasn't enough. The general rule of thumb is about 10% of your boot drive should be free.
For now, try restarting the machine and clearing your web browser's cache and history. Then work on removing some of your large data files. Move them to an external drive. Get that free space number up to where it should be. If you then continue to have problems with free space filling up, you've got a problem somewhere.
Finally, you say you don't use Time Machine... If you don't have backups at all, note that you are playing Russian Roulette with your data every day. Start backing up ASAP, before you learn how important that is the hard way.

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