My living needs were pretty low. I thought I could live in a shabby apartment with just a computer and not starve,” Musk confided.
My living needs were pretty low back then. I thought I could live in a shabby apartment with just a computer and not starve to death.” Musk said that when he was young, he was only interested in things that were considered the future of humanity, such as electric cars, solar energy and sustainable consumption. Therefore, immediately after moving to Canada, Musk tried to spend as economically as possible. “Buying food in bulk at the supermarket is cheaper, although you may get tired of the sausages and oranges after a while. Noodles and green peppers are also things I buy regularly.
So Musk decided to spend a maximum of $30 a month on food. “I just lived like that. It was pretty good,” Musk confided. However, Musk also shared with Business Insider that he does not encourage anyone to apply the above frugal spending method because it only seemed suitable many years ago. “I don’t recommend anyone living on $1 a day. It’s not fun. Plus, I did it in the 1990s. A dollar was worth more then than it is now. If you do what I did then, it’s going to be hard . When asked about the biggest motivation for his decision to spend sparingly, Musk said it wasn’t necessarily poverty or charity. It was simply how he experienced living a frugal life on the road to becoming a great entrepreneur. In 2022, in an interview with Vanity Fair, singer Grimes, Elon Musk’s ex-girlfriend, also revealed that Musk used to live extremely “poor”, even “below the poverty line”. Specifically, when the two were still living together, Grimes accidentally discovered a hole in the mattress in the bedroom. However, instead of buying a new one, Musk suggested taking the old mattress from Grimes’ house to replace it to save money.