Getting things in Chinese

[kyrasantae]

I acquired a second-hand vacuum cleaner this morning, and while thinking about how I was going to describe doing so, I noticed that there's no way to describe "getting" something (as in "acquiring" it) in Cantonese without describing how you got it: you can buy it, take it, be given it, find it, trade for it, steal it, and so on, but you can't just "get" it in a manner-agnostic way.

Is that neat or what, or am I missing something really obvious here? (I'm a native Cantonese speaker, btw.)