What is using my hard drive space on my macbook pro

Something is using all my hard drive space and I cannot figure out what. Yesterday I had 120GB and now I have 120MB free and got a disk warning. I have noticed this past week that my space has been eaten up. My Mac Book Pro is 2 months old and I have not put any big or fancy programmes on it as I am still getting used to this being my first Mac. One of the selling points for getting a Mac is I heard its programmes took a lot less space. My previous PC that I had for 2 years had a 130GB hard drive and I had 20GB free when I gave it away. I cannot believe I have used all my 500GB hard drive space when I have only installed a few programmes on this one such as Notebook, Pages, and some accounting software. I cannot seem to find details of where the space is being used. Please help.

Mr_Joe wrote:
My Mac Book Pro is 2 months old
I cannot seem to find details of where the space is being used. Please help.
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