{"id":47324,"date":"2026-03-11T04:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/maye-musk-describes-her-son-elons-living-space-the-shower-only-has-one-towel\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T04:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:31:39","slug":"maye-musk-describes-her-son-elons-living-space-the-shower-only-has-one-towel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/maye-musk-describes-her-son-elons-living-space-the-shower-only-has-one-towel\/","title":{"rendered":"Maye Musk describes her son Elon&#8217;s living space: &#8216;The shower only has one towel&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69b0e5f14d65ec517529cc26?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Maye Musk and Elon Musk at The 2022 Met Gala celebrating In America: An Anthology of Fashion held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022, in New York City.\"\/><figcaption>Maye Musk and Elon Musk at The 2022 Met Gala celebrating In America: An Anthology of Fashion held at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022 in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Lexie Moreland\/WWD\/Penske Media via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Elon Musk&#039;s austere living conditions involve having only one towel in the shower, his mother says.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;There is no food in the fridge,&quot; Maye Musk added in a Tuesday X post.<\/li>\n<li>She previously said she slept in his garage while visiting him, but she did not mind it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elon Musk is one of those guys who only has one towel, according to his mother.<\/p>\n<p>In an X post on Tuesday, Maye Musk described her son&#039;s living space in Boca Chica, southern Texas, near SpaceX&#039;s Starbase launch site.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There is no food in the fridge,&quot; the billionaire&#039;s mother, 77, said. &quot;The garage where I slept is on the right.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>She added, &quot;The shower only has one towel so I left it for Elon. That was okay with me.&quot;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maye Musk (@mayemusk) March 10, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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<p>&quot;I think my parents prepared me for this luxury,&quot; she said, adding a laughing emoji to the end of her X post.<\/p>\n<p>Musk&#039;s Boca Chica house is a 3-bedroom home worth $45,000, he said in a 2022 podcast interview.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Maye Musk has ratted on her son&#039;s living conditions.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, she responded to Musk&#039;s tweet, in which he said he slept on a friend&#039;s couch the weekend prior. She said she has &quot;many memories of sleeping on mattresses or blankets on the floor, on couches, or a bed in the garage,&quot; when she visited him in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>In that tweet, she said it was &quot;still better than on the ground in the Kalahari Desert with lions or hyenas nearby.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>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<p>&quot;Back to spending 24\/7 at work and sleeping in conference\/server\/factory rooms,&quot; he said in a May X post after quitting his role in the Department of Government Efficiency to focus on his companies.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Musk&#039;s slim inventory of towels, he&#039;s previously said the habit that had the biggest positive impact on his life was showering.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Musk did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maye Musk and Elon Musk at The 2022 Met Gala celebrating In America: An Anthology of Fashion held at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022 in New York City. Lexie Moreland\/WWD\/Penske Media via Getty Images Elon Musk&#039;s austere living conditions involve having only one towel in the shower, his mother says. 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