Elon Musk is one of those guys who only has one towel, according to his mother.<\/p>\n
In an X post on Tuesday, Maye Musk described her son’s living space in Boca Chica, southern Texas, near SpaceX’s Starbase launch site.<\/p>\n
“There is no food in the fridge,” the billionaire’s mother, 77, said. “The garage where I slept is on the right.”<\/p>\n
She added, “The shower only has one towel so I left it for Elon. That was okay with me.”<\/p>\n
There is no food in the fridge. The garage where I slept is on the right. The shower only has one towel so I left it for Elon. That was okay with me. When I was a child, I\u2019d spend three weeks in the Kalahari Desert without showering. Many times. There was no water. I think my\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/8XT04q5DQg<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Maye Musk (@mayemusk) March 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Maye Musk wrote that she had been primed to live like this since childhood, saying that she had spent many weeks in the Kalahari Desert as a child without showering because there was no water.<\/p>\n “I think my parents prepared me for this luxury,” she said, adding a laughing emoji to the end of her X post.<\/p>\n Musk’s Boca Chica house<\/a> is a 3-bedroom home worth $45,000, he said in a 2022 podcast interview.<\/p>\n This is not the first time Maye Musk has ratted on her son’s living conditions<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 2023, she responded to Musk’s tweet, in which he said he slept on a friend’s couch the weekend prior. She said she has “many memories of sleeping on mattresses or blankets on the floor, on couches, or a bed in the garage,” when she visited him in Texas.<\/p>\n In that tweet, she said it was “still better than on the ground in the Kalahari Desert with lions or hyenas nearby.”<\/p>\n Musk has made headlines several times for his austere and modest lifestyle. The Tesla, SpaceX, and X CEO, who is currently worth about $664 billion and is the richest man alive, is known for sleeping on the floor in his offices and going to bed at 3 a.m.<\/p>\n “Back to spending 24\/7 at work<\/a> and sleeping in conference\/server\/factory rooms,” he said in a May X post after quitting his role in the Department of Government Efficiency to focus on his companies.<\/p>\n Despite Musk’s slim inventory of towels, he’s previously said the habit that had the biggest positive impact<\/a> on his life was showering.<\/p>\n Representatives for Musk did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.<\/p>\n