MacBook Air Storage help on 10.7.5

OK well I have a MacBook Air version 10.7.5 and I barely ever use it. Lately I tried to download a few things and it told me I'm low on space. (its the 60+ GB version) I checked the info tab "About this mac" and my storage says its filled up with "other" up to 35 GB. (my other stuff barely takes up 5 GB) Help? Im new to Mac so please just helpful and detailed explanations. I know how to free up space on PCs but not on Macs I just cant seem to locate where all this "Other" stuff is located to remove it. I mean I know you need space for the operating system but I'm sure its not 35GB. Thank you.

Other refers to everything that doesn't fit in the other categories: system files, data, documents, mail, etc.
Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion's Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.

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