My MBP said my disk space was getting full. I made space and 2 hours later it notified me it was almost full again. I deleted more files and now I can literally see space disappear from my Finder. How is this happening and where is it going?!!!

Please HELP ME!
I'm not sure WTH is going on, and it's frustrating the crap out of me.
I don't have any external drives connected, and I've never had this problem before.
***NOTE: suddenly now it's showing that I have 30gb+ free. WTH just happened?!***

Time Machine is having fun with you.....
Seriously, if you check the Time Machine configuration in System Preferences, you will probably find that it is taking snapshots of the disk drive. Since those take up space, and old ones get deleted, that would explain what's going on.
http://www.apple.com/support/timemachine/

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