Why does my startup disk fill so quickly?

I have a Macbook 2007 and for the past few days, I have been getting notices while running Photoshop Elements 8 and iTunes that my startup disk is almost full. A friend recommended restarting, which I did. I would start with 200MB left of memory but within a few hours, the notices would pop up and my memory would be Zero KB available all over again. Has anyone else run into this problem? It's so frustrating. I know it's time to upgrade computers, but I don't want to make my parents pay for one for next year and then one for college the year after, so I am hoping to make it last one more year!

Disk Utility repairs inconsistencies in the Disk Directory, which holds information like the name, size, and which actual blocks on the disk store the data. The Directory has a balanced tree structure for rapid searching.
Occasionally the Directory gets minor errors in it. File length errors can occur when a new file is opened at the default minimum size, and its size is never adjusted to its actual size when closed. It is not a major problem.

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