Elon Musk’s mother says she has slept on ‘mattresses or blankets on the ground’ when she visits her billionaire son

• Maye Musk mentioned she has slept on blankets on the ground when visiting her son, Elon Musk.
• Previously, she has mentioned she’s slept within the storage at his home close to SpaceX’s launch website.

Elon Musk’s mom, Maye Musk, has some uncommon sleeping preparations when she visits her son.

On Tuesday, she said on Twitter that she has “many recollections of sleeping on mattresses or blankets on the ground, on couches, or a mattress within the storage” when she visits her son.

“This occurs to @kimbal @ToscaMusk and me,” Maye tweeted, referencing her two different youngsters as properly. “We adapt. It is nonetheless higher than sleeping on the bottom within the Kalahari Desert with lions or hyenas close by, which I did as a toddler.”

Elon’s mom made the remark in response to a tweet by which the billionaire mentioned he’d “slept on a buddy’s sofa final weekend.”

—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 11, 2023

It isn’t the primary time the 74-year-old mannequin has referenced her sleeping preparations at her son’s home. She advised The Occasions UK final 12 months that she would not sleep in a correct bed room when she visits the SpaceX CEO in Boca Chica, the placement of the corporate’s Texas headquarters and Starbase launch website.

“I’ve to sleep within the storage,” she advised the outlet. “You may’t have a flowery home close to a rocket website.”

Elon has mentioned up to now that he would not have a “essential residence,” although he lives in a “very small” home in Boca Chica price $45,000.

“My mates come and keep they usually cannot consider I am staying on this home,” he mentioned on “The Full Ship” podcast earlier this month.

He mentioned the house, which measures 800 to 900 sq. ft, is “technically a three-bedroom however it was once a two-bedroom” earlier than he transformed its storage.

The billionaire additionally owns a $50,000, 375-square-foot prefab tiny dwelling that he makes use of for friends.

Elon had mentioned in 2020 that he was “promoting nearly all bodily possessions” and “will personal no home.”

When requested within the Occasions UK interview if Musk was keen on materials possessions, Maye mentioned, “No, by no means in that sense.”

Maye has mentioned that her household was not all the time so rich. When Elon was a lot youthful, Maye mentioned that she was hustling to lift three youngsters as a single mom whereas incomes two grasp’s levels and establishing a profession as a mannequin, dietitian, and nutritionist, in response to her guide, “A Lady Makes A Plan.”

Maye and her household lived in South Africa earlier than they moved to Canada in 1989. She mentioned that on the time she needed to work 5 jobs directly to assist her household.

Maye additionally helped Elon and Kimbal begin Zip2 — their first enterprise that later turned PayPal — and donated her total financial savings to assist them cowl workplace bills. She known as it her “greatest funding ever” in a 2015 interview with Insider.