Folder size is twice that of its contents????

Startup Disk > Users > Username
My Username folder shows a folder size that is just about double the size of all of its visible folders. I can see this when viewed in the Finder in List View with Folder Size Shown as my default View setting. Any idea how I can figure out what is going on?
thanks
Brad

Topher,
Before I saw your reply, I emptied my trash and that brought the folder size down to what it should be to match its contents. I should have remembered that. None the less, I did what you suggested once I read your message and here it is:
total 2240
drwxr-xrwx 34 brad 503       1156 Feb 27 16:13 .
drwxr-xr-x   7 root admin      238 Dec 1 08:00 ..
-r--------   1 brad 503          7 Dec 1 07:48 .CFUserTextEncoding
-rw-r--r--@ 1 brad 503      12292 Mar 1 16:22 .DS_Store
drwx------   5 brad 503        170 Mar 1 16:42 .Trash
drwxr-x--x   4 brad 503        136 Apr 19 2011 .adobe
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 brad 503        102 Apr 27 2011 .autodesk
-rw-------   1 brad 503        546 Feb 15 2012 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x   6 brad 503        204 Aug 28 2014 .blurb
drwx------   3 brad 503        102 Feb 27 2014 .cache
drwxr-xr-x   4 brad 503        136 Feb 27 2014 .config
drwx------   3 brad 503        102 Dec 6 2010 .cups
-rw-r--r--   1 brad 503    1109647 Sep 23 2011 .fonts.cache-1
drwxr-xr-x   2 brad 503         68 Jun 18 2013 .gs5
drwxr-xr-x   3 brad 503        102 Sep 6 2011 .local
-rw-r--r--   1 brad 503        239 Sep 6 2011 .mailcap
-rw-r--r--   1 brad 503        368 Sep 6 2011 .mime.types
drwxr-xr-x   3 brad 503        102 Dec 18 2012 .viewcd
-rw-r--r--   1 brad 503         90 Apr 17 2013 .vuescanrc
drwxr-xr-x   8 brad 503        272 Jun 26 2014 .wapi
drwxr-xr-x   4 brad 503        136 Dec 4 12:23 Applications
drwx------@ 3 brad 503        102 Dec 20 11:44 Creative Cloud Files
drwx---rwx@ 40 brad 503       1360 Mar 1 16:48 Desktop
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drwx------+ 3 brad 503        102 Feb 20 16:42 Downloads
drwx------@ 4 brad 503        136 Feb 22 22:43 Google Drive
drwxrwxr-x   5 brad admin      170 Dec 7 18:07 Incompatible Software
drwx------+ 66 brad 503       2244 Mar 1 15:07 Library
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