Employees of the Mueller Wood Art manufacturer in Seiffen, eastern Germany, work on wooden figurenes on September 14, 2016, as preparations for the Christmas business are already under way. The traditional company yearly produces among others around 12,000 incense smokers, 8,000 Christmas pyramids and 1,500 nutcrackers. / AFP PHOTO / dpa / Sebastian Kahnert / Germany OUTSEBASTIAN KAHNERT/AFP/Getty Images