How Much Memory should OS X take up?

So I recently updated to Mavericks, and i've seen online that it should take up 8 GB on the hard drive. But when I check my hard drive, the "other" bar, takes about 51 GB used on my hard drive. What could be taking up so much space, and How do I check/ get rid of it?

That 8GBs is for the download. You need at least 15GGBs to install and if you did a clean install and then the iLife apps the total would be somewhere aroung 25-30GBs of disk space.
51GBs in the Other category is about right.

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