Backups section of storage using 60+ gigs with Time Machine off

While using mountain lion I realized that my hard drive had a rather large amount of backup space.  I did some digging and research but almost every issue I found involved time machine.  I have time machine off and use an external hard drive to just keep copies of documents and files. 
     I decided to upgrade to Maverick and this did delete the Backups section of storage, but now it has started to build up again.  It does somewhat seem as though everything I delete and empty from my trashcan gets added to this list based off of size.  If anyone has any clue as to what could cause this or how I could fix it, it would be greatly appreciated. 
     Also, this problem did persist before I partitioned my hard drive for bootcamp.

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