How do you clean your wood?

I haven’t used anything like Pledge for years preferring to damp dust and then immediately dry off. I’ve used E-clothes for this. I have got beeswax which occasionally I put on some furniture but not often. Today my OH finished off sorting, throwing out from our study and then preceded to clean! He asked me for Pledge to polish the desk. I told him I didn’t have any and he got a bit shirty with me because he couldn’t understand that the furniture wasn’t polished! 
So does anyone else still polish with Pledge type cleaner? Am I behaving badly?