User preferences on multiple computers

Mac OSX users: has anyone tried saving and migrating their user preferences for use on another Mac? For instance, let's say I set up my desktop at home to look and function a certain way. Can I easily transfer these same settings to a work computer, assuming the OS is the same? I sometimes work onsite for various companies having consistent prefs would help me be more efficient.

finding folders by size is pretty easy, modification date is a bit harder.
Here is a script that will list all user folders over 300mb.
I will leave it to you to test and modify to delete those folders.
#!/bin/bash
#list all folders larger than 300MB in /Users
#will exclude administrator and Shared
for user in $(ls -1 /Users | grep -v "Shared" | grep -v "administrator")
do
homeSize=$(du -sm /Users/$user | cut -d"/" -f1)
if [[$homeSize -gt 300]]; then
echo "/Users/$user"
fi
done

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