No free disk space on my Macbook Pro- why?

Hi, i'm having a lot of trouble trying to free up disk space on my mac!
I have 120g HD with 8G RAM. I'm using OS X 10.8.5
Disk Usage on Activity Monitor says i have used 110.29G and only 10.18G free, which i find ridiculous! I have backed up my computer with an external hard drive, have deleted all of my unused apps (like Photoshop and some Microsoft office programs), movies, work, and most of my photos to free up space, leaving only photos, music and a few small word files here and there on my computer, yet i still have no space!
'About this mac' shows 62.97G of 'other' storage being used.. what could this be??
I have used apps like Trash It, CleanGenius and AppTrap to free space, but nothing seems to be working! The app CleanGenius enabled me to get rid of duplicate files and i managed to get 17GB free, but after i restarted my computer it went back down to 10GB! Why?!
On Disk Utility i have used the verify disk permissions, repair disk permissions, and verify disk functions but to be honest i don't think it made any difference.
I have used terminal to free cache's and clear the sleep-mode file that the mac makes.
Any suggestions would be fantastic as i don't understand why i still don't have any space!! I've been trying for weeks! Fr
Please help!!

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