- Maye Musk said she has slept on blankets on the floor when visiting her son, Elon Musk.
- In the past, she has said she’s slept in the garage at his house near SpaceX’s launch site.
- Musk has said he lives in a $45,000 converted two-bedroom house in Texas, and also couch hops.
Elon Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, has some unusual sleeping arrangements when she visits her son.
On Tuesday, she said on Twitter that she has “many memories of sleeping on mattresses or blankets on the floor, on couches, or a bed in the garage” when she visits her son.
“This happens to @kimbal @ToscaMusk and me,” Maye tweeted, referencing her two other 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren as well. “We adapt. It’s still better than sleeping on the ground in the Kalahari Desert with lions or hyenas nearby, which I did as a 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥.”
Elon’s mother made the comment in response to a tweet in which the billionaire said he’d “slept on a friend’s couch last weekend.”
It’s not the first time the 74-year-old model has referenced her sleeping arrangements at her son’s house. She told The Times UK last year that she doesn’t sleep in a proper bedroom when she visits the SpaceX CEO in Boca Chica, the location of the company’s Texas headquarters and Starbase launch site.
“I have to sleep in the garage,” she told the outlet. “You can’t have a fancy house near a rocket site.”
Elon has said in the past that he doesn’t have a “main residence,” though he lives in a “very small” house in Boca Chica worth $45,000.
“My friends come and stay and they can’t believe I’m staying in this house,” he said on “The Full Send” podcast earlier this month.
He said the home, which measures 800 to 900 square feet, is “technically a three-bedroom but it used to be a two-bedroom” before he converted its garage.
The billionaire also owns a $50,000, 375-square-foot prefab tiny home that he uses for guests.
Elon had said in 2020 that he was “selling almost all physical possessions” and “will own no house.”
When asked in the Times UK interview if Musk was interested in material possessions, Maye said, “No, not at all in that sense.”
Maye has said that her family was not always so wealthy. When Elon was much younger, Maye said that she was hustling to raise three 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren as a single mother while earning two master’s degrees and establishing a career as a model, dietitian, and nutritionist, according to her book, “A Woman Makes A Plan.”
Maye and her family lived in South Africa before they moved to Canada in 1989. She said that at the time she had to work five jobs at once to support her family.
Maye also helped Elon and Kimbal start Zip2 — their first business that later became PayPal — and donated her entire savings to help them cover office expenses. She called it her “best investment ever” in a 2015 interview with Insider.
