How can I free space in my hard disk in air mac

I have a mac book air 11 in with 2 GB memory and os x 10.6.8 .It got very slow and can no longer save any files in open office since the hard disk is full and it says I must free space but I do not know how to do that ? I want to upload some of my files to icloud but to be able to use i cloud I must also free some space

dont delete anything, buy a memory stick or external HD and offload the large static files,...pics, vids, movies, etc.
Find this folders "arrange by size" in your finder window.

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