How Do I Clean Users Folder?

I am prepping my desktop iMac to eventually port to my MacBook Air using Migration Assistant. Since the MacBook Air has only 128GB of memory, I am moving most user files to external hard drives -- movies, music, photos, and some personal files.
Thus, my User folder is mostly cleaned out. After deleting many files and Emptying the Trash, the total remaining is perhaps 1GB visible. However, using the CTRL-I Get Information function, the storage used by the folder still shows 17GB. Are there hidden files that need to be cleaned, or some other problem? The iMac and Macbook Air both have OS X Yosemite.

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