Elon Musk is one of those guys who only has one towel, according to his mother.
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.
“There is no food in the fridge,” the billionaire’s mother, 77, said. “The garage where I slept is on the right.”
She added, “The shower only has one towel so I left it for Elon. That was okay with me.”
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’d spend three weeks in the Kalahari Desert without showering. Many times. There was no water. I think my… https://t.co/8XT04q5DQg
— Maye Musk (@mayemusk) March 10, 2026
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.
“I think my parents prepared me for this luxury,” she said, adding a laughing emoji to the end of her X post.
Musk’s Boca Chica house is a 3-bedroom home worth $45,000, he said in a 2022 podcast interview.
This is not the first time Maye Musk has ratted on her son’s living conditions.
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.
In that tweet, she said it was “still better than on the ground in the Kalahari Desert with lions or hyenas nearby.”
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.
“Back to spending 24/7 at work 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.
Despite Musk’s slim inventory of towels, he’s previously said the habit that had the biggest positive impact on his life was showering.
Representatives for Musk did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
